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A private letter from Iulius to his 'brother' Valerius, written on an ostracon found at the Roman military station of Didymoi in the Eastern Desert of Egypt. Iulius checks how many of the seven letters he sent through army servants arrived, asks for a stater and a borrowed pen case, apologizes for having no frankincense, and sends greetings.
A galearius was a soldier's servant or camp attendant, here used as a letter carrier. 'Brother' may be a term of comradeship rather than kinship.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Letters from Iulius to Valerius, Antonius, and Dolens. Sertorius). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
Ἰούλις Οὐαλερίῳ τῷ ἀδελφῷ χαίρειν. ἔπεμψά σοι ἐπιστολὰς τέσσαρας διὰ τοῦ γαλεαρίου τοῦ ἐκεῖθεν ἀπὸ Διδύμων καὶ διὰ Κορνηλίου γαλεαρίου ἄλλας γ ὥστε ζ. εἰ ἔλαβες, ἀντίγραψον πόσας ἔλαβες· καί σοι μίαν ἔπεμψα. στατῆρα ἀλλάξιμον πέμψον ἵνα ἀποδῶ, καὶ τὸ καλαμάριoν ἐπεὶ ἀλλότριόν ἐστ…
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