Fragmentary private letter on an ostracon from the Roman fort of Didymoi in the Eastern Desert, addressed to a 'brother'. The writer reports his health, mentions being rather weak, asks the recipient to collect a tunic from the letter carrier, and sends greetings, including from a certain Trebellius.
In English machine translation
[…]
[…] brother (?) […]
[…] and I myself am also in good health. I want you to know, brother, that
[…] comes (?), I will come […] Trebellius
we want […]
as I am just now rather weak […]
Greet Ba[…]
and receive his tunic from the man bringing you the letter, and tell him he got up well.
And greet Men[…]; Trebellius greets him.
[…] […]mos greets you.
The text belongs to a group of letters associated with a man named Maximus. The phrase 'he got up well' probably means he recovered from illness, but the 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 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.