One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 34700

Order to deliver one artaba of wheat to Peteuris TM 34700Kysis (Oasis Magna)IV - Anfang V

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A short order for payment written as a letter, instructing the addressee to give 1 artaba of wheat to a man named Peteuris. It was written on an ostracon from Kysis in the Kharga Oasis in the 8th indiction year, in the 4th or early 5th century AD.

In English machine translation

[…] Peteuris […] […] greetings. Give to […] Peteuris of wheat […] 1 artaba, total 1 artaba. I pray for your health. 8th indiction.

The names of the sender and addressee are lost. The indiction is a 15-year fiscal cycle, so the year cannot be fixed precisely.

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 sous forme de lettre). 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)

[…]Πετεῦρις …… […] χαίρειν. δὸς τῷ […] Πετεύρι σίτου … ἀρτάβην μίαν γίνεται ἀρτάβη α. ἐρρῶσθαί σε εὔχομαι. η ἰνδικτίωνος.