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A short private letter on an ostracon from Apollos to Ammonios, sent from the station of Raima in the Eastern Desert in the mid-2nd century AD. Apollos arranges for 4 obols to be passed on so Ammonios can send him salted fish, asks him to buy two sponges, mentions cheese that could not be found, and says he has sent vegetables with the convoy.
The 'Fortune (Tyche) of Raima' is the protective deity of the desert station where the writer prayed for the recipient. The phrase read as 'has not found cheese' is uncertain; the Greek is run together.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Lettre d’Apollôs). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
Ἀπολλῶς Ἀμμωνίῳ τῷ φιλτάτῳ χαίρειν. τὸ δὲ προσκύνημά σου ποιῶ παρὰ τῆς Τύχης Ῥαειμα. κόμισον παρὰ …[…] τετρώβολον εἵνα πέμπῃς μοι τεμάχια. γράψω αὐτῷ οὐχ εὕρηκατυρείν, ἀλλὰ μὴ μέμφησθε ἡμᾶς. ἀγόρασόν μοι σπόγγους β. ἀσπάζομαι Ἁρβέκιν. [ms] ἔπεμψά σοι μετὰ τῆς πορίας λάχανα.
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