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A short private letter on an ostracon from the Roman fort of Didymoi in the Eastern Desert, in which Harpokras tells Damas, Athenodoros and their friends to collect bundles of cabbage sent with a donkey-driver's boy, Serapion, and divide them. He also asks that the fort's curator write to the man at Harpokras' location once the plasterer has left.
The curator (kourator) was the officer in charge of a fort or station in the Eastern Desert. 'Synkellarioi' (cell-mates) probably refers to soldiers sharing quarters.
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.
Ἁρποκρᾶς Δαμᾶτι καὶ Ἀθηνoδώρῳ καὶ πᾶσι τοῖς φίλοις πλεῖστα χαίρειν· κόμισαι παρὰ Σεραπίωνος παιδὸς ὀνηλάτου δέσμας κράμβης, τὴν μείζω αὐτοῖς τοῖς συγκελλάριοις, τὴν δὲ ἄλλην δώσεις Προκλίωνι, ἀφ’ ὧν ἔχομεν καὶ μελέτω ὑμῖν ἵνα μετὰ τοῦ ἀπελθεῖν τὸν κονιάτην γράψῃ ὁ κουράτωρ τῷ ὧδε…
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