Letter from Apollinaris to Sonneus asking for oil TM 29694RaimaMitte II

Ostracon with a private letter from Apollinaris to Sonneus, whom he calls brother, asking him to find some oil, 2 or 3 kotylai or more, and then turning to two jars of wine he had bought. It dates to the mid 2nd century AD and comes from the Roman station at Raima in the Eastern Desert, in the Mons Claudianus area.

In English machine translation

The kotyle was a small liquid measure of roughly a quarter litre. The sender's first name 'Aponis' is uncertain, and the record groups this text with other letters of Apollinaris to the same addressee.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Trois lettres d’Apollinaris à Sonsnaus). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.