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A private letter on an ostracon from the Roman fort of Didymoi in the Eastern Desert, written by a man whose name ends in -sos to his 'brother' Ammonios. He asks Ammonios to come down, to bring strained Laodicean wine if he has a donkey, and to ask Oktaios to give Apis two days' leave to come along.
The praesidium is a small Roman military fort on the desert roads; 'Laodicean' refers to imported wine from Laodicea in Syria, and 'strained' (hylistos) means filtered wine. 'Brother' may be a term of familiarity 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 to Ammonios). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
[…]σος Ἀμμωνίῳ τῷ ἀδελφῷ πλεῖστα χαίρειν· καλῶς ποιήσεις ἂν ἀμετεώριστος τε[…]…δων σου εἰς τὸ πραισίδιον ἵνα πρόσοδον ποιησώμεθα τοῦ καταβῆναί σε. τῶν θεῶν ἐπιτρεπόντων προχωρεῖ τὰ πλείονα τῶν ὧδε καὶ ἐὰν ἔρχῃ καὶ ὄνον ἔχῃς καὶ δύνῃ ἡμῖν τῆς τιμῆς ὑλιστὸν ἐνεγκεῖν λαοδικηνοῦ, καλ…
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