Document from a praepositus limitis to a cavalry prefect about donatives TM 22130Oxyrhynchos325 - 337

Fragment of an official document addressed to Flavius Timagenes, a former protector and prefect of a cavalry unit (ala), from Triadelphos, commander (praepositus) of a frontier district. It concerns two donatives (imperial cash bonuses to soldiers) under the emperor Constantine and a sum of 28 talents of silver for a four-month period beginning on 1 May. It dates from AD 325-337 and comes from Oxyrhynchus.

In English machine translation

A donative was a cash gift paid to soldiers on imperial occasions such as anniversaries; the end date of the four-month period is restored. The word read before "months" may refer to the annona (rations), as the catalogue title suggests." ,

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