One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 34569

List of names including Paulos the courier TM 34569Kysis (Oasis Magna)IV - Anfang V

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Fragment of an ostracon listing personal names, some in the dative case, apparently recording people to whom something was given or assigned. It comes from Kysis in the Great (Kharga) Oasis and dates to the 4th or early 5th century AD.

In English machine translation

[… lines lost …] […]is Plutogenes to Panias Besis to Paulos, angareutes (requisitioned courier) to Psenesis […] to the sons of P[…] Paapis […] Ou[…] [… lines lost …]

The abbreviation is expanded as angareutes, a person performing compulsory transport or courier service (angareia). The mix of nominative and dative names suggests pairs of givers and recipients, but the purpose of the list is unclear.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Liste de noms). 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.3.213

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

[… ? lines lost …] ……[…]ις Πλουτογένης Πανίᾳ Βῆσις Παύλῳ ἀγγαρευτῇ Ψενήσι […]…[…] υἱοῖς Π[…] Παάπι[…] Οὐ…[…] [… ? lines lost …]