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A statement recording that 960 pounds of meat were issued through a pork-butcher named Takous to thirty bucellarii (private retainer soldiers) and a secretary, each named individually, mostly receiving 30 pounds. It was written at Oxyrhynchus in March 561. The recipients include men with Germanic names, two Bessians from the Balkans and two men from Salonae in Dalmatia.
Bucellarii were armed retainers maintained by great landowners or officials in late antique Egypt; the date uses the Oxyrhynchite era years (237 = 206). The listed amounts actually total 990 lbs., though the text states 960.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Receipt for Supplies to Bucellarii). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
Statement showing that 960 pounds of meat had been distributed to 30 bucellarii and, apparently, a secretary. All the recipients are specified by name, and it is here that the interest of the document lies. Two have Germanic names, two are described as Bessi, two more as from Sa…
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