One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 34515

Order from Horos to Peteuris to issue annona bread to the optio Petros TM 34515Kysis (Oasis Magna)IV - Anfang V

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An ostracon with a payment order from Horos, the diadochos (deputy official), instructing Peteuris to issue annona bread to Petros, an optio (junior military officer). It comes from Kysis in the Great Oasis and dates to the 4th or early 5th century AD.

In English machine translation

Horos, diadochos, to Peteuris. Give to Petros, optio, bread of the annona […] [… ? lines lost …]

Part of a dossier of payment orders issued by the diadochos Horos. The annona was the state ration supplied to soldiers; the quantity of bread is lost.

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 Πέτρῳ ὀπτίονι ἄρτου ἀννώνας […] [… ? lines lost …]