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Order to a sitologos to pay out wheat as rent for an allotment near Kerkeesis. An order from Ptolemaios, a scribe, to the granary official Ptolemaios of Autodike, instructing him to pay out 45 artabas of wheat to Poseidonios son of Didymos on behalf of Herakleides son of Zenobios, as rent for a land allotment farmed near Kerkeesis in the Polemon division of the Arsinoite nome. The docket on the back notes the grain was unclean. machine translation

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Transcription

[r] Πτολεμαῖος γραμματεὺς Πτολεμαίωι σιτολόγωι Αὐτοδίκης χαίρειν. μέτρησον Ποσειδωνίωι Διδύμου ὑπὲρ Ἡρακλείδου τοῦ Ζηνοβίου ἐκφόριον οὗ γεγεώργηκεν αὐτοῦ κλήρου περὶ Κερκεῆσιν τῆς Πολέμωνος πυροῦ δρόμῳ τεσσαράκοντα πέντε, γίνονται πυροῦ δρόμῳ με. ἔτους α, Παῦνι ιθ. [v] σίτου ῥυπαροῦ.

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[recto] Ptolemaios, scribe, to Ptolemaios, sitologos of Autodike, greetings. Measure out to Poseidonios son of Didymos, on behalf of Herakleides son of Zenobios, the rent of the allotment of his which he has farmed near Kerkeesis in the division of Polemon: forty-five (artabas) of wheat by the dromos measure, total 45 (artabas) of wheat by the dromos measure. Year 1, Pauni 19. [verso] Of dirty grain.

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