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A Christian letter reporting that the writer reached Alexandria after a stormy voyage, met the magistrianus Belisarios carrying replies from their common master, and waited to travel on with him; the writer promises to write again from Babylon. It is addressed to the most illustrious Theodoros and comes from Oxyrhynchus, late 6th to 7th century AD.
A magistrianus was an imperial courier or agent under the master of offices. The word read as exerketon is obscure; it may represent Latin exercitus (army) or a garbled form, and the sentence's 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 To Theodorus). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
[r] † † τοῦ θεοῦ συμμαχοῦντος καὶ τῶν ἁγίων κατελάβαμεν τὴν Ἀλεξανδρέων πολὺ πάνυ χειμασθέντες καὶ ηὔραμεν Βελισάριον τὸν μαγιστριανὸν πεμφθέντα μετὰ ἀποκρίσεων παρὰ τοῦ κοινοῦ ἡμῶν δεσπότου καὶ ἀνεμείναμεν ἵνα ἐν τῷ ἅμα ἐξέλθωμεν πρὸς τὸν θεοφύλακτον ἡμῶν δεσπότην, καὶ ἐλπίζομεν…
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