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λόγος. Παῦλος Ἰωάννῃ σιγνίφερι κρέως λίτραι λδ. Μακάριος Παῦλος δ… Παῦλος ἄρτου ἀννώνας ιδ. Δῖος …… δ… Παῦλος ἄρτου ἀννώνας β, Μουσῆς καὶ Ἰωάνης καὶ Πέτρος διὰ Παύλου ἄρτου ἀννώνας ε.
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 34455
Account of meat and bread rations TM 34455Kysis (Oasis Magna)IV - Anfang V
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An ostracon account recording deliveries of meat and bread rations (annona), apparently to soldiers, including 34 pounds of meat to Ioannes the standard-bearer and several issues of bread handled by a certain Paulos. It comes from Kysis in the Great Oasis and dates to the 4th or early 5th century AD.
In English machine translation
Account. Paulos to Ioannes the signifer: 34 pounds of meat.
Makarios, Paulos through (?) […] Paulos: 14 bread rations (annona).
Dios […] through (?) […] Paulos: 2 bread rations (annona); Mouses and Ioannes and Petros, through Paulos: 5 bread rations (annona).
Annona here means the official ration allowance, typically issued to soldiers; a signifer was a military standard-bearer. Some names and words in lines 3 and 5 are illegible.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Compte de viande et de pain). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.