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τῷ κυρίῳ μου υἱῷ Ὀλβίῳ Πετεχῶν χαίρειν. παράσχου Ἰωσῆφ πρίγκιπι γεουχικῷ μέτρῳ σίτου μάτια εἴκοσι καὶ κριθῆς μάτια εἴκοσι ἑπτὰ γίνονται σιτοκρίθου μάτια μζ. σεσημείωμαι ὁ αὐτὸς ἐπιμελητὴς κάστρων Ἵβεως, α ἰνδικτίωνος.
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 34574
Order to deliver wheat and barley to Ioseph the princeps TM 34574Kysis (Oasis Magna)IV - Anfang V
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An ostracon order for payment in kind, in which Petechon, overseer of the forts of Hibis, instructs Olbios to deliver 20 matia of wheat and 27 matia of barley to Ioseph, a princeps. It comes from Kysis in the Great Oasis and dates to the 4th or early 5th century AD.
In English machine translation
To my lord son Olbios, Petechon, greetings. Provide to Ioseph, princeps, by the estate-owner's measure, 20 matia of wheat and 27 matia of barley, total of wheat and barley 47 matia.
I, the same, have signed, epimeletes of the forts of Hibis.
1st indiction.
The mation is a small dry measure used in the Oasis; the 'estate-owner's measure' (geouchikon metron) is a private measuring standard. The princeps here is likely a military or official rank-holder, and the epimeletes was a supervisor responsible for supplies to the forts of Hibis.
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.