One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 23826

Receipt for public oil from the farmer Dorotheos TM 23826Oasis Parva16. Dez. 410

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A short receipt or order on an ostracon concerning four units of public oil, involving Abramios, Heraklios the overseer and the farmer Dorotheos son of Marinos. It is dated year 87, 9th indiction, Choiak 20, which corresponds to 16 December 410, at the Small Oasis (Bahariya).

In English machine translation

Year 87, Choiak 20. To Abramios: expenditure of oil, 4, four, public oil. Lord (?) Heraklios to the overseer, greetings. 9th indiction, Choiak. From Dorotheos son of Marinos, farmer.

The year 87 is counted by an era used in the Oases, matched here with the 9th indiction. The text is ungrammatical, and the unit of oil and the roles of the persons named are not stated clearly.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Ölquittung). 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 · 16. Dez. 410 · Oasis Parva

ἔτους πζ Χοίακ κ Ἀβραμίωι ἀνάλωμα ἐλαίου δ τέσσερες δημόσιον ἐλαίον Κυρ Ἡράκλιος ἐπιμελητῇ χαίρειν. θ ἰνδικτίονος Χοίαχ παρὰ Δωροθέου Μαρίνου γεωργοῦ