Order of the dux of the Thebaid for the grain shipment to Alexandria TM 19350Aphrodites Kome (Antaiopolites)543 - 544

[A] [Ioannes Theodoros Menas Narses Chnoubammon] Horion Hephaistos, the most glorious quaestor, dux and augustalis of the Thebaid province. [Since the time has, with God's help, arrived in which care must be taken for the] obligatory grain shipment of the fortunate seventh [indiction, avoiding all blame for negligence, hasten] to dispatch it to the great city of the Alexandrians with [all fear, loading] the required measure [onto small boats] straight away and immediately according to the [subjoined schedule, at the risk of the officium; for] it is for this reason that [someone] from the officium [has been sent. Farewell.] [B] You must, following the example of the just past sixth indiction, deliver the subjoined measure to the most fortunate grain shipment of the present seventh indiction. Of course, when the payment is made, take the receipts (?). Wheat by the kankellon measure: 5759 artabas thus: […] wheat […]: 2000 artabas wheat [by the kankellon]: 3759 (artabas)