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A private letter on an ostracon from Theodoros to Sabinus, whom he calls his brother, found at the Roman fort of Didymoi in the Eastern Desert. Theodoros says he had not known Sabinus was at Didymoi, or he would have sent vegetables daily, and sends cabbages and lettuces with the donkey-driver Claudius.
"Brother" is a common polite form of address in such letters and need not mean a blood relative. Fresh vegetables were a valued supply at desert forts like Didymoi.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Letters not Attached to a Group). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
Θεόδωρος Σαβίνῳ τῷ τιμιωτάτῳ ἀδελφῷ χαίρειν· πρὸ παντὸς εὔχομαί σε ἰσχύειν καὶ ὑγιαίνειν. ὡς ἄρτι οὐκ ᾔδειν ὅτι εἰς Διδύμους εἶ· εἰ δὲ μὴ καθ' ἡμέραν σοι ἔπεμψα λαχάνια. κόμισαι παρὰ τοῦ ὀνηλάτου Κλαυδίου δέσμην κραμβίων καυλοὺς θ καλοὺς καὶ θριδάκια η. ἔρρωσο.
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