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Circular announcing the elevation of Maximus as Caesar to desert garrisons TM 144596Didymoi

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An ostracon copy of a circular from Aurelius Sarapammon, a decadarch, to the curatores of the road stations from Phoinikon to Berenike in Egypt's Eastern Desert. It forwards a letter of the prefect announcing that Emperor Maximinus had proclaimed his son Maximus Caesar, and orders the soldiers to be informed and sacrifices and acclamations to be offered.

In English machine translation

Aurelius Sarapammon, decadarch, ordinatus, to the curatores from Phoinikon as far as Berenike, greetings. What the most illustrious [prefect Mevius Honoratianus] wrote to me […] of the divine letters set out above, by our lord [Emperor] Caesar Gaius Julius Verus Maximinus, divine […] Gaius Julius Verus Maximus, his own son, […] with the first-fruits most divine (?) […] proclaimed Caesar, of these […] letters […] take care to make these things known to your fellow soldiers and […] the common prayer of us all […] and to perform the first-fruits of sacrifices and acclamations, and to the […] to post these letters so that all fellow soldiers […] this public and most longed-for favour […] Year 2 of Emperor Caesar Gaius Julius Verus [Maximinus Pius] Felix Augustus and Gaius Julius Verus [Maximus the most sacred] Caesar Augustus, son of the Augustus […] […] the most illustrious […] wrote […] […]

Curatores were the soldiers commanding the small forts (praesidia) along the desert road; the prefect's name is restored. The regnal year corresponds to AD 235/236.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Copies de correspondance reçue). 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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Αὐρήλιος Σαραπάμμων δεκάδαρχος ὀρδινᾶτος κουράτορσι τοῖς ἀπὸ Φοινικῶνος μέχρι Βερενίκης χαίρειν. τίνα μοι ἔγραψεν ὁ λαμπρότατος ἡγεμὼν Μήουιος Ὁνωρατιανὸς […] προτεταγμένων θείων γραμμάτων ὑπὸ τοῦ κυρίου ἡμῶν Αὐτοκράτορος Καίσαρος Γαίου Ἰουλίου Οὐήρου Μαξιμίνου θείων …[…] Γάιον Ἰ…