Receipt for annona of the soldiers of Antaiopolis TM 19006Antaiopolis10. Mai 538

Fragment of a receipt issued on 10 May 538 at Antaiopolis acknowledging payment of the annona (supply allowance) for the soldiers stationed at Antaios for the first indiction, reckoned as 8,750 units of wine-and-meat allowance, equivalent to 50 gold solidi. The issuer, a Flavius whose name is lost, gives the receipt for the security of the payers and the treasury.

In English machine translation

Oinokreas is the combined wine-and-meat ration of Late Roman soldiers, here commuted to gold. Formaria is a Latin loanword for a formal receipt or document.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Fragment de quittance). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.