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A letter from Teres, curator (commander) of the station at Raima in Egypt's Eastern Desert, to Anius, a duplicarius, reporting that the cavalryman Oktaeis has arrived from the Nile valley with Anius's monthly provisions. Teres asks Anius to send a donkey quickly to fetch them, before Oktaeis leaves for Kaine, and asks for barley.
Epimeneia are monthly rations or provisions issued to soldiers; 'Egypt' here means the Nile valley as opposed to the desert. Kaine is Kainopolis (Qena); the verb before it is damaged.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Lettre de Teres, curator de Raima, à Anius, duplicarius). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
Ἀνείῳ δουπλεικαρείῳ Τήρης κουράτωρ Ῥαειμα χαίρειν. γεινώσκειν σε θέλω ὅτει Ὀκτάεις ὁ ἱππεὺς ἦλθεν ἀπὸ Αἰγύπτου ὥραν ια τῆς ἡμέρας τῆι κζ καὶ ἤνεικέν σοι ἐπιμήνεια. λοιπὸν οὖν ἔπεμψά σοι τὸν ταβελλάριον εἵνα πέμψῃς ὄνον Ὀκταείῳ εἵνα σοι πέμψῃ. ταχύτερον οὖν αὐτὸν πέμψον ἐπὶ …παψει…
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