Order of the strategos to reimburse merchants with meat supplied to soldiers at Memphis TM 16873Oxyrhynchites22. Aug. 311

Aurelius Dioskourides also called Julianus, strategos of the Oxyrhynchite nome, to Claudius Herakleios also called Plutarchos, praepositus of the 1st pagus, his dearest, greetings. In accordance with the order of my lord the procurator of the Heptanomia, Valerius Sarapodoros, make haste to have supplied from your pagus to Chairemon son of Stephanos and Serenos son of Nemesion, from the Oxyrhynchite nome, and to their partners, the merchants, in return for what they supplied at the city of Memphis to the most noble soldiers stationed there, 4,850 pounds of meat, the receipts (formaria) of which distribution they bring in hand, the equal number of pounds, four thousand eight hundred and fifty, receiving from them the same receipts in order that they may be credited to those making the provision man by man, depositing them with the strategic office, (namely the receipts) of those making the contribution of this weight. I pray for your health, dearest. In the consulship of our master Maximinus Augustus for the 2nd time, Mesore 29 […] 29 […]