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A fragmentary private letter on an ostracon from Vibius Maximus to Panisneus and Theanous, found at the Roman fort of Didymoi in Egypt's Eastern Desert. He explains that he could not send a two-kotyle measure of oil from the first day and that he was angry because they had sent Maximus.
A dikotylon is a measure of two kotylai, roughly half a litre. The text belongs to a group of ostraca connected with Philokles and contemporaries including the woman Theanous.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Nemesous, Theanous and Other Contemporaries of Philokles: Theanous). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
Οὐίβιος Μάξιμος Πανισνεῦτι καὶ Θεανοῦτι ἀμφοτέροις χαίρειν· πρὸ μὲν πάντων ἀναγκαῖον ἡγησάμην δι’ ἐπιστολὴν ἀσπάζεσθαι τοὺς δύο […] μεμφω[…] ἄδελφε […] λέγων ὅτι […] καὶ ἡμεῖς ἄλλο τι ἔχομεν […] ειτουο…οσυτεποσημ…[…] οὐκ ἐδυνάμην γὰρ ἀπὸ τῆς πρώτης ἡμέρας ἀποστείλῃ τὸ δικότυλον ἐ…
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