An order from Aelianus to Apollonios, the receiver of wine, to issue wine in knidia to a list of officials of a governor's staff, including a cornicularius, a commentariensis and assistants of the princeps. The total is 158 knidia, confirmed by a signature and the instruction to expend. It dates to the early 4th century AD, from Pesla in the Hermopolite nome or Hermopolis.
In English machine translation
From Aelianus
To Apollonios, receiver of wine. Provide to those written below […]
[…] to […] cornicularius, 20 knidia of wine; to Paulus the commentariensis, [… knidia of wine]; […] 6 knidia of wine; to Lucius, another, 6 knidia; to Horigenes, assistant of the princeps, [… knidia of wine]; […] 10 knidia; to Theophanes, another, 10 knidia; to Hermias, another, [… knidia] of wine […]
[… knidia] […]anus, another, 10 knidia; to Isidoros, another, 10 knidia; to M[…]
[… knidia] […]-nis, another, 10 knidia; to Syros the […]arius, 10 knidia; to Justinianus
[… knidia] […] 10 knidia. Total of the order: 158 knidia of wine.
I have signed for 158 (one hundred fifty-eight) knidia of wine.
Expend.
A knidion is a wine jar measure. The recipients' titles (cornicularius, commentariensis, princeps) are Latin ranks in an official's office staff.
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