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A short letter on an ostracon from Maximus to a colleague he calls brother, thanking him for arranging to collect a sum of money and asking him to send it with Justus. It ends with greetings to several men at the fort, including a curator and a conductor. Found at the Roman fort of Didymoi in the Eastern Desert.
The curator was the commander of a desert fort (praesidium), and the conductor was probably a contractor holding a concession such as the fort's supply or brothel. 'Brother' is likely 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 Sent or Written by Maximus). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
Μάξιμος Μ[…] τῷ ἀδελφῷ πλεῖστα χαίρειν· εὐχαριστῶ σοι, ἄδελφε, ὅτι ἐμέλησέ σοι πῶς τὸν χαλκὸν ἐκπράξῃς καὶ ἂν ἀναβαίνῃἸοῦστος, δὸς αὐτῷ καὶ οἴσει μοι. καὶ σύ, εἴ τί μοι θέλεις, ἐπίταξόν μοι. ἄσπασαι Ἀντώνιoν κουράτορα καὶ Φάβιον καὶ Ἰούλιον καὶ Ἄννιον καὶ Οὐ[…] κονδούκτορα καὶ τὴ…
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