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Greek and Latin receipts for bread and wine for the prefect's retinue TM 18859Oxyrhynchos4. März 220
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Two receipts, one in Greek and one in Latin, issued by Valerius Valentinus, land-surveyor on the staff of the prefect of Egypt, to Titus Flavius Valerianus, euthenarch (food-supply official) of Oxyrhynchus. They acknowledge delivery of 2,841 plus 300 loaves and 640 camp sextarii of wine for the prefect's retinue, with the prices paid, dated 4 March 220.
In English machine translation
[…]
[…] on the fourth day before [the Nones of March]
[…]imos, land-surveyor of [the most illustrious prefect of E]gypt, to Tit[us Flavius Valerianus], euthen[iarch] of the city of the Oxyrhynchites, greetings.
I have received from you loaves
for the expenditure of the retinue (comitatus) of our most illustrious prefect, 2,841 loaves, for which I also paid the price at the rate of one full obol per loaf;
and likewise another 300 loaves, for which I also gave the fixed price.
In the consulship of the Emperor our lord Antoninus for the 3rd time and Comazon for the 2nd time,
on the fourth day before the Nones of March, I, Valerius Valentinus, land-surveyor of the prefect of Egypt, have received wine, 640 camp sextarii, from Titus Flavius, euthenarch of the city of the Oxyrhynchites, […] and I [paid] the price at the rate of 4 full obols per camp sextarius. Done […] in the consulship stated above.
The euthenarch was a municipal official responsible for the city's food supply. The 'camp sextarius' (sextarius castrensis) was a military measure; the Latin text is written with vulgar spellings such as 'Oxsoricito poleis'.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Quittungen über Militärverpflegung). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
chla.41.1198
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