Receipt for supplies to bucellarii
Description
Statement showing that 960 pounds of meat had been distributed to 30 bucellarii and, apparently, a secretary. All the recipients are specified by name, and it is here that the interest of the document lies. Two have Germanic names, two are described as Bessi, two more as from Salonae (in Dalmatia), and several others bearing names that are unusual. But to find foreigners serving as bucellarii in Egypt is normal at a time when the Imperial armies were largely recruited from barbarians. Some of these individuals recur in P.Oxy. XVI 2046.
The same text in other collections
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TM 22035.
Each record below describes this same ancient text from a different angle.
- Receipt for Supplies to Bucellarii HGV-meta Oxyrhynchos10. März 561
- p.oxy.16.1903 DDbDP-text textOxyrhynchos10. März 561
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- TM-Text 22035 primary
- APIS-Text oxford-ipap.apis.1895 tier-1
- DDbDP-Text p.oxy;16;1903 tier-1
- DDbDP-Text p.oxy.16.1903 tier-1
- HGV-Text 22035 tier-1
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