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Account of rations issued to Moors, legionaries, mounted archers and officials TM 33792HermopolitesIV

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A day-by-day account of quantities, measured in minas and litrai (probably meat), issued to military units stationed in the Hermopolite nome: Moorish troops, legionaries, mounted archers and officials, over the months Mecheir and Phamenoth. It dates to the 4th century AD.

In English machine translation

[column 1] […] for horses [column 2] Pap[…] 30 minas 17: to the Moors, for the 15th, 16th, 17th, 254 minas 1 litra 18: to the officials, 3 minas 1/2 litra to the mounted archers, 12 minas 2 litrai [21]: to the legionaries, for the 18th 32 minas 1 litra, and for the 21st 25 minas 1/2 litra, total 57 minas 1 1/2 litrai to the Moors, for the 18th, 19th, 169 1/2 1/8 minas to the officials, 3 minas 1 litra Peto… for […] 9 minas 1 1/2 litrai 25: to the officials, 3 minas 1/2 litra to the mounted archers, 9 minas 1 1/2 litrai 28: to the Moors, for the 26th, 27th, 28th, 3 days, 233 minas 1 1/2 litrai Phamenoth 1 to the officials, 3 minas 1/2 litra to the Moors, 73 minas 1/2 litra to the same, for the 2nd and 3rd, 146 minas 1 litra to the mounted archers, 9 minas 1 1/2 litrai to the officials, 3 minas 1/2 litra to the same, for the 7th, 3 minas 1/2 litra Total 1320 1/2 1/8 minas [column 3] and to the same, for the 9th, makes, through Pollon the cook Mecheir 5 […] to the Moors, towards the balance 7: to the same, 84 minas [2] litrai 8: to the same, 84 minas [2] litrai to the legionaries, 32 minas 1 litra […] 13: to the legionaries, 32 minas 1 litra 14: to the legionaries, 32 minas 1 litra to the Moors, 254 minas 1 litra […] 22: to the Moors, for the 20th, 21st, 22nd, 166 minas 2 litrai […] 24: to the legionaries, 27 minas 1 1/2 litrai 25: to the Moors, for the 20th and […] 116 minas to the same, for the 25th, 58 minas … from Antinoou, 23 minas 1/2 litra 26: to the legionaries, 27 minas 1 1/2 litrai 30: to the Moors, 146 minas 1 litra Phamenoth …: to the legionaries, […] minas 1/2 litra 5: to the Moors, for …, 146 minas 1 litra Total 1295 minas 1/2 litra

The commodity is not named, but the weights in minas and litrai and the mention of Pollon the cook suggest meat rations. The 'Moors' (Mauri) were a cavalry unit of the late Roman army stationed at Hermopolis.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below. 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 · IV · Hermopolites

[1] [… ? lines lost …] ἵπποις [2] Παπ[…] μναῖ λ ιζ Μαύροις ὑπὲρ ιε, ιϛ, ιζ μναῖ σνδ λίτρα α ιη ὀφφικιαλίοις μναῖ γ λίτρας 𐅵 ἱπποτοξόταις μναῖ ιβ λίτραι β κα λεγιωναρίοις ὑπὲρ ιη μναῖ λβ λίτρα α καὶ ὑπὲρ κα μναῖ κε λίτρας 𐅵 γίνονται μναῖ νζ λίτρα α 𐅵 Μαύροις ὑπὲρ ιη, ιθ μναῖ ρξθ 𐅵…