p.brux.bawit.11
[…]ⲡσύμμαχος ἐλαίου ξέστης ἥμισυ ἥμισυ διὰ Ἰω[…] […] κδ ἰνδικτίωνος ιγ †
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 109831
Order for payment of oil to a courier TM 109831Bawit (Hermopolites)VIII
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A short order for the payment of half a sextarius of oil to a courier (symmachos), issued through a man whose name begins Io[…] (perhaps Ioannes). It is dated to the 24th of a lost month in the 13th indiction and comes from the monastery of Bawit in the Hermopolite nome, 8th century AD.
In English machine translation
[…] the symmachos (courier): of oil, 1/2 sextarius, half, through Io[…]
[…] 24, indiction 13 †
A symmachos was a messenger or courier, often attached to an estate or administration. The fraction 'half' is written both as a symbol and in words, as is usual in these orders.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Ordre de paiement d'huile). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.