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List of loads and wheat assigned to decuries TM 144569Didymoi

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A fragmentary ostracon from the Roman fort of Didymoi in the Eastern Desert listing deliveries or allocations by decury (a unit of ten), measured in half loads and in artabas of wheat. One decury is named after Peteesis.

In English machine translation

Decury of Pr…b: 1/2 load Decury ⟦decury⟧ of Peteesis son of Pam(…): 1/2 load … … … Decury of …ch: 201 artabas of wheat […] […]

The decury (dekania) was a small unit, here probably of soldiers or transport personnel, named after its leader. The gomos was a standard pack-animal load.

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 · Didymoi

δεκανία Πρ…β γόμος ἥμισυ δεκανία Πετέησις Παμ γόμος ἥμισυ ε… ε πλ… δεκανία …χ πυροῦ ἀρτάβαι σα […]… [… ? lines lost …]