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Letter from Aetios to Abinnaeus about shipments of grain and oil TM 10032Philadelphia? (Arsinoites)ca. 346

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Letter from Aetios to his superior, the military commander Abinnaeus, reporting goods sent to him by some Libyans and by a soldier: wheat, oil, goatskins, sacks and other items. He urges that grain be moved from Theoxenis and asks whether soldiers who arrived with ostraka (orders or receipts) should be given supplies. It dates to about AD 346, probably from the Arsinoite area.

In English machine translation

To my lord brother, Aetios, very many greetings in the Lord God. I have sent to you by the Libyans 16 artabas of wheat, (artabas) 16, and 1 sealed spathion of oil and 8 goatskins and 8 sacks. Receive from them also 3 belts (?). And I sent by Agathos, soldier from Hermopolis, 2 spathia of oil and the basket. And make haste to transfer the wheat and the barley from Theoxenis, since it is becoming known (?). And I paid the Libyans the 14 1/2 artabas of barley. And some soldiers came to us with ostraka; if you order them to receive from us, write back to me. I pray for your health for many years, lord patron. (Address) To my lord brother, Aetios.

The letter belongs to the archive of Flavius Abinnaeus, commander at Dionysias, addressed here as 'brother' and 'patron'. A spathion is a type of oil jar; the word rendered 'belts' (zoktheres) is uncertain in meaning.

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

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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · ca. 346 · Philadelphia? (Arsinoites)

κυρίῳ μου ἀδελφῷ Ἀέτιος ἐν κυρίῳ θεῷ πλεῖστα χαίρειν. ἀπέστειλαπρός σε διὰ τῶν Λιβυκῶν σίτου ἀρτάβας δεκάεξ , ἀρτάβας ιϛ, καὶ ἐλαίου σπάθιον ἓν ἐσφραγισμένον καὶ δέρματα αἴγινα ὀκτὼ καὶ σάκκους ὀκτώ . δέξαι παρʼ αὐτῶν καὶ ζωκτῆρας τρεῖς . καὶ ἔπεμψα διὰ Ἀγάθου στρατιώτου ἀπὸ Ἑρμο…