One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 21232

Order to deliver wheat to a baker of Thosbis TM 21232Oxyrhynchites11. Jan. 338

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A short order from Herakleios to a man whose name begins Herm[…], instructing him to deliver a quantity of wheat to Achilleus, a baker of the village of Thosbis. It was issued on 11 January 338 in the Oxyrhynchite nome.

In English machine translation

Herakleios to Herm[…], [greetings]. Give to Achilleus, baker of [the village of] Thosbis, […] artabas of wheat. Year 32, 22, 14, 5, Tybi 16.

The date gives the regnal years of Constantine and his Caesars (32, 22, 14, 5). The number of artabas is lost.

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

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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 11. Jan. 338 · Oxyrhynchites

Ἡράκλειος Ἑρμ[…]χαίρειν. δὸς Ἀχιλλεῖ ἀρτοκόπῳ κώμης Θώσβεως σίτου ἀρτάβας[…] ἔτους λβ κβ ιδ ε Τῦβι ιϛ.