Letter from Valens, curator, to a decurion about a sick soldier TM 29783Mons ClaudianusII

Ostracon letter from Valens, curator of a military post, to a decurion named […]nius, reporting that a soldier Julius from the fort had been away for 17 days and has come back ill and cannot proceed. It dates to the 2nd century AD and comes from Mons Claudianus in the Eastern Desert.

In English machine translation

A curator was the officer in charge of a small desert fort (praesidium); a decurion commanded a cavalry troop. The restoration "absent" for the 17 days is the editor's and shapes the sense of that line.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Lettre de Valens, curator, à [...]nius decurio). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.