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A short private letter on an ostracon from Serapion to his father, also named Serapion, found at the quarry site of Mons Claudianus in the mid-2nd century AD. He asks his father to buy a papyrus roll and pay the teacher Didymos to copy a prose text for him.
"Pezos logos" means prose, as opposed to verse; the kathegetes Didymos was a teacher. "Chalkos" literally means bronze, i.e. copper coinage as payment.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Lettre de Sérapion). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
Σεραπίων Σεραπίωνι τῷ πατρὶ πολλὰ χαίρειν. πρὸ παντὸς εὔχομαί σου τὴν σωτηρίαν. ἀναγκαίως ἔσχον διʼ ἐπιστολιδίου ἀσπάσασθαι. καλῶς ποιήσις, ἐὰν τὸν χάρτην ἀγοράσῃς, ἀπελθὼν πρὸς Δίδυμον τὸν καθηγητὴν καὶ δοὺς χαλκὸν ἵνα μεταγράφηταί μοι πεζὸν λόγον. λοιπὸν οὖν μὴ ἄλλως ποίει.
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