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Θέων ὀπτίων Πρίσκῳ καὶ Παπνούθει παράσχου Ἐπονίχῳ κριθῶν μόδια εἴκοσι πέντε γίνονται κριθῶν μόδιοι κε μόνοι. Θέων σεσημείωμαι ιδ ἰνδικτίονος …ελ…απις ἔγραψα
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 34378
Order from the optio Theon to deliver barley to Eponychos TM 34378Kysis (Oasis Magna)IV - Anfang V
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An ostracon order from Theon, an optio (junior military officer), instructing Priskos and Papnouthis to deliver 25 modii of barley to Eponychos. It was written at Kysis in the Great Oasis in the 4th or early 5th century AD, in a 14th indiction year.
In English machine translation
Theon, optio, to Priskos and Papnouthis: provide to Eponychos 25 modii of barley, total 25 modii of barley only. I, Theon, have signed.
14th indiction.
[…] I wrote.
An optio was a junior officer, here probably responsible for military supplies. The name of the scribe in the last line is illegible.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Ordre de paiement). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.