o.did.55
τῷ ὀνηλάτῃ κριθῆς μάτια δύο ἐπεὶ συν…τρεφατων ωνην.
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Order to give barley to a donkey-driver TM 144621Didymoi
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A short ostracon order from the Roman fort of Didymoi in Egypt's Eastern Desert, asking that 2 matia of barley be given to a donkey-driver. The opening address and request were struck out by the writer, and the end of the text is unclear.
In English machine translation
⟦To Didymoi⟧
⟦Lyk…[…]⟧
⟦Please give⟧
to the donkey-driver 2 matia of barley,
since […]
[…].
The mation was a small dry measure, a fraction of an artaba. The last two lines are garbled in the edition and cannot be securely translated.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Ordres de livraison). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.