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A receipt from Aurelius Dioskoros, a town councillor in charge of wine being shipped to the Upper Thebaid, to Aurelius Adelphios, acknowledging the loading of 3,500 Italian sextarii of wine onto boats for the supply of soldiers. The wine was owed by the 5th pagus for the 20th indiction; the document was written at Hermopolis in AD 312.
The wine was part of the annona militaris, the tax in kind supplying the army; the Italian sextarius was a Roman liquid measure of about half a litre. The 'supply' (euthenia) refers to provisioning of the troops.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Transportbescheinigung für annona militaris). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
ὑπατείας τῶν δεσποτῶν ἡμῶν Κωνσταντίνου καὶ Λικιννίου Λικιννιανοῦ Σεβαστῶν τὸ β Αὐρήλιος Διόσκορος Τ[…]βουλευτὴς ἐπιμελητὴς οἴνου […]ἀνακομιζομένου ἐπὶ τὴν Ἄνω Θηβαίδα Αὐρηλίῳ Ἀδελφίῳ Ἀδελφίου ἀπὸ τῆς αὐτῆς πόλεως χαίρειν. ὁμολογῶ ἐμβεβλῆσθαι παρὰ σοῦ εἰς τὰ παρασταθέντα πλοῖα εἰ…
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