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Order from Makaria to Victor for delivery of annona bread to Longinus TM 34472Kysis (Oasis Magna)IV - Anfang V

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An ostracon order from Makaria to Victor, a superintendent (epimeletes), instructing him to issue 24 rations of annona bread to Longinus. It was written at Kysis in the Great Oasis in the 4th or early 5th century AD, on Pachon 20.

In English machine translation

Makaria to Victor, superintendent. Give to Longinus […] 24 (rations of) bread of the annona, only. I have signed. Pachon 20.

The names of the sender and addressee and part of the commodity are restored from parallel orders in the same archive. The annona was the state supply of provisions, here bread rations, probably for soldiers.

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.

o.douch.2.137

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · IV - Anfang V · Kysis (Oasis Magna)

Μακαρία Βίκτωρι ἐπιμελητῇ. δὸς Λογγίνῳ […]ἄρτου ἀννώνας κδ μόνας. σεσημείωμαι. Παχὼν κ.