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Order of Horos to Peteuris to deliver annona bread to Ioannes TM 34512Kysis (Oasis Magna)IV - Anfang V

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An ostracon order from Horos, deputy (diadochos), instructing Peteuris to give Ioannes eighteen and a half units of annona bread. It belongs to a dossier of payment orders from Kysis in the Great Oasis, dated to the 4th or early 5th century AD.

In English machine translation

[Horos], diadochos, to Peteuris. Give to Ioannes […] of bread of the annona eighteen and a half only. I have signed.

Annona here refers to state rations, usually for soldiers; the unit of bread is not stated. Diadochos denotes 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 Πετεῦρει. δὸς Ἰωάννῃ …αμι… ἄρτου ἀννώνας δέκα ὀκτὼ ἥμισυ μόνας. σεσημείωμαι.