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Order from Horos the deputy to Peteuris for five rations TM 34508Kysis (Oasis Magna)IV - Anfang V

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An ostracon payment order from Horos, the deputy (diadochos), instructing Peteuris to give five rations (annonai) to a man named Osis. It belongs to a dossier of such orders from Kysis in the Great Oasis, dating to the 4th or early 5th century AD.

In English machine translation

Horos, deputy, to Peteuris. Give to Osis […] five rations only. I have signed.

Annona here means an allowance of rations, probably for military or official personnel. The diadochos was a deputy or substitute official.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Dossier du diadochos Hôros (ordres 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.

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

Ὧρος διάδοχος Πετεύρει. δὸς Ὠσῆτι …[…]…[…]… ἀννώνας πέντε μόνας. σεσημείωμαι.