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Letter from Isidoros to his sons Isidoros and Paniskos requesting a cushion and ink TM 29818Mons Claudianusfrühes II

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An ostracon letter from Isidoros, working at the Mons Claudianus quarry in the Eastern Desert, to his sons Isidoros and Paniskos, asking them to send a small elbow-cushion, ink, small loaves and any letters that have come for him from the Nile valley. He also promises to send money once he sells barley.

In English machine translation

Isidoros to Isidoros and Paniskos his sons, greetings. I wrote to you on another ostracon that you should send me the small elbow-cushion, since I suffer when sleeping, and you did not send it. So send it, and the little ink-pot (?) and 2 small loaves, and of the small ones take half and send them in a little rag, since your ink-pot has … to … into the little hand (?), since I stand writing, and in return for it I will send to you. Concerning the copper money, I wrote another time that as soon as I sell barley, I will send it. Send whatever little letters have ever been brought for me from Egypt. I decided that you should not shave, because of being in the mountain. So do not neglect what I write to you […] to provide. Farewell. Phaophi 22

"Egypt" here means the Nile valley as opposed to the desert quarry ('the mountain'). The passage about the ink-pot and the hand is damaged and its sense is uncertain.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Letter from Isidorus to his Two Sons). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.

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o.claud.1.174

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · frühes II · Mons Claudianus

Ἰσίδωρος Ἰσιδώρωι καὶ Πανίσκωι τοῖς υἱοῖς χαίρειν. ἔγραψα ὑμῖν διʼ ἑτέρου ὀστρακίου ὅπως πέμψατέ μοι τὸ ὑπαγκώνιον τὸ μικρὸν ἐπεὶ πάσχω καθεύδων καὶ οὐκ ἐπέμψατε. πέμψατε οὖν αὐτὸ καὶ τὸ μελάνιον καὶ κολλυρίδια β καὶ ἐκ τῶν μικρῶν τὸ ἥμισυ λαβόντες εἰς ῥακάδιον πέμψατε, ἐπεὶ τὸ μ…