An official order from Dionysios to Asychis, a controller (antigrapheus), instructing him to join in advancing olyra grain to the priests of the temple of Seph in exchange for 958 artabas of wheat delivered by cultivators, with a further endorsement by Straton. It dates to Epeiph of year 24, i.e. August 157 BC, in the Herakleopolite nome.
In English machine translation
[recto]
Received, year 24, Epeiph […]
… […] …
… paid out (?) to Tilothis
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… year 24
Dionysios to Asychis, [greetings.] If the men sent by Philippos [measure out], in accordance with the [instruction] from Sarapion, in exchange for the [wheat] to be delivered by the cultivators [for the subvention] and the other dues [of the] temple [of Seph], of which [the wheat] had to be exchanged [from the] same, out of the 958 artabas [paid out (?)] up to [year 23] …, the corresponding olyra at the rate of […] per artaba of wheat, join in advancing it to those delivering, after the aforementioned […] artabas of wheat have first been measured out; [and] take care that [nothing] in these matters is overlooked, since the account will be drawn up with you, and make a receipt and counter-receipt with them as is proper.
Farewell. Year 24, Epeiph 14.
Straton. Advance the corresponding olyra at the rate of … per artaba …
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To Asychis. Join in advancing, as written above, from the wheat to be measured out for exchange, at the rate per artaba of olyra […] … 958 (artabas) of wheat.
Year 24, Epeiph 15.
[verso]
To the antigrapheus […] Asychis
For … royal … year 24, Epeiph 15, to give in exchange to the priests concerning the wheat of Seph, 958 artabas […]
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of exchange of wheat
Olyra is a coarse grain (emmer) often exchanged for wheat at a fixed rate; the rate figures are lost. The antigrapheus was a controlling official who countersigned grain transactions.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Anweisung an den Antigrapheus Asychis). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.