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An ostracon letter from Longinus, curator of the fort of Aphrodites Oros, to his colleague Kilikas, written at the request of the garrison about Kilikas' slave girl and a sum of sixty drachmas. Longinus says the money is with him and offers to send it, together with something belonging to the conductor, once Kilikas sends word.
A curator was the soldier in charge of a fort on the Eastern Desert roads; the conductor was probably the contractor who leased prostitutes' services to the garrisons. The phrase about the girl and the sixty drachmas is grammatically awkward and its exact 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 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.
Λογγῖνος κουράτωρ Ἀφροδίτης Ὄρους Κιλικᾶτι τῷ ἀδελφῷ χαίρειν· ἠρωτήκασιν με οἱ ἐκ τοῦ πραισιδίου ἵνα σοι γράψω περὶ τῆς παιδίσκης σου ἥ σοι βαστάζει τῶν ἑξήκοντα δραχμῶν. πέμψον καὶ πρὸς ἐμέ ἐστι ὁ χαλκὸς ἢ πέμψον μοι φάσιν καὶ πέμψω σοι καὶ τὸ τοῦ κονδούκτορος πρὸς ἡμᾶς ἐστι. ἔρ…
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