A sworn report by two former overseers, councillors of Arsinoe, to the strategos of the Arsinoite nome, made at the order of the catholicus Valerius Euethius, on supplies delivered to the army. It quotes Latin receipts from AD 303 for wine issued to soldiers with camels and pack animals at pasture near the city, totalling 640 Italian sextarii.
In English machine translation
To Aurelius […], strategos of the Arsinoite nome,
from the Aurelii […] and […], both councillors of the city of the Arsinoites, former overseers (epimeletai) of capit[um] (?) […] of the same city. Since you are inquiring, in accordance with the order of the most eminent catholicus Valerius Euethius, about the […] made […] of the divine regulations […], we declare, swearing by the fortune of our lords Diocletian and Maximian Augusti and Constantius and Maximian the most illustrious Caesars, […] of the past year […] we have submitted […] city (?) […] in order […] of the registered (?) […]
[…] and having been asked the formal question we acknowledged. It is as follows:
[…] camels staying in […]
[…] from the things collected […]
[…] overseer, sextarii 1520 (?) […]
[…] 553 […]
[…] and […]
[…] Licinnius […] thirty. Given on the above-written date, of wine […]
[…] -ty […] on the above-written date, in the consulship of our lords Diocletian Augustus for the 8th time and Maximian Augustus for the 7th time […] Arsinoite […]
[…] for 1 day, Pachon 17 […] of May, sextarii […] 57 […]
[…] of the Nile […] in the above-written consulship of our lords the Augusti and […] Licinnius […] who were with the pack animals at pasture near the city […] rations, 6 (?) fifty-seven, on which day […] of May, for one day. Given on the above-written date, of Italian wine, sextarii (?) fifty.
[…] I have noted […] on the above-written date, our lords Diocletian Augustus for the 8th time and Maximian Augustus for the 7th time being consuls.
[…] of the distribution of wine, Italian sextarii 610 and for the twentieths sextarii 30; total with the twentieth, sextarii [640].
Sextarii 640.
[…] and […] of our lords Diocletian and Maximian Augusti and Constantius and Maximian Caesars […]
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The document is bilingual: a Greek declaration incorporating Latin military receipts dated by the consulship of Diocletian (8th) and Maximian (7th), i.e. AD 303. The 'twentieth' appears to be a 5% surcharge added to the wine issue.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Rapport de deux épimélètes à un stratège du nome Arsinoite concernant des fournitures militaires). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.