Two receipts issued by Hermopolite councillors acting as distributors of military supplies to Aurelius Philammon, a supervisor, for meat, chaff and wine collected at Hermopolis to be credited to him at the forts and at Syene. Each is countersigned by Silvanus. They date to 16 June 360 at Hermopolis.
In English machine translation
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Aurelius Aelianus son of Hermes, councillor of Hermopolis, distributor (diadotes) at Philai (?), to Aurelius Philammon, supervisor (epimeletes), greetings. I have received from you at Hermopolis […] pounds of meat, total […] pounds of meat, on condition that I credit them to you in the forts and issue receipts; and 300 pounds of chaff, total 300 pounds of chaff. Pauni 22.
I, Aelianus, the aforesaid distributor, have signed.
I have received the duplicate. I, Silvanus, have signed.
Aurelius Philippus son of Hermes, councillor of Hermopolis, of the most splendid city of Hermopolis, to Aurelius Philammon, supervisor of the 3rd indiction. I have received from you at Hermopolis four hundred and forty sextarii of wine and sixty-eight pounds of meat and one thousand two hundred pounds of chaff, total 440 sextarii of wine, 68 pounds of meat, 1,200 pounds of chaff, on condition that I credit them to you at Syene for the 3rd indiction.
Pauni 22. I, Aurelius Philippus, the aforesaid distributor, have signed. Aurelius Eudoxios agrees with me.
I have received the duplicate. I, Silvanus, have signed.
The annona militaris was a tax in kind supplying the army; the diadotes was the official who distributed these supplies to troops, here at frontier forts and Syene. The place name in the first receipt, read as Philai, is partly restored.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Quittungen für annona militaris). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.