Order to Dorotheos for provisions for a speculator TM 33722OxyrhynchosIV

An order from an unnamed sender to Dorotheos, an assistant, to supply provisions, including 4 pounds of meat and 20 clean loaves (?), for the service of a speculator, a military or official courier. The back carries a fragment of a different legal text with contract formulas. It comes from Oxyrhynchus in the 4th century AD.

In English machine translation

A speculator was an official or military agent often used as a courier or escort. The verso preserves unrelated contract clauses, including the formal question-and-answer stipulation and a guarantee formula.

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