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Order to supply bread rations to Senuris TM 34644Kysis (Oasis Magna)IV - Anfang V

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An order on an ostracon from Demetris, an optio (junior officer), instructing the supervisor Chrestos to issue fifty bread rations to Senuris. It was signed by Pachoumis on Pachon 10, at Kysis in the Great Oasis, in the 4th or early 5th century AD.

In English machine translation

Demetris, optio, to Chrestos, epimeletes. Supply to Senuris fifty rations (annonae) of bread, total 50 bread rations, only. Through me, Pachoumis, I have signed. Pachon 10

Annona here means a fixed ration allowance, typically for soldiers. The addressee's name Chrestos is restored.

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.

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

Δημῆτρις ὀπτίων Χρήστῳ ἐπιμελητῇ. παράσχου Σενῦρις ἄρτου ἀννώνας πεντήκοντα γίνονται ἄρτου ἀννῶναι ν μόνας διʼ ἐμοῦ παχοῦμις σεσημείωμαι Παχὼν ι