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Unfinished report of the sitologoi of Tebtynis to the strategos TM 11282Tebtynis (Arsinoites)29. Sept. - 27. Okt. 221

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Report of the sitologoi (granary officials) of Tebtynis, Aurelius Polion and his associates, to the strategos Aurelius Sereniskos also called Hermesias, recording grain measured into the public granary from the previous year's harvest. The document was left unfinished, breaking off before the quantities, and dates to Phaophi of year 5 of Elagabalus and Severus Alexander (autumn AD 221).

In English machine translation

To Aurelius Sereniskos also called Hermesias, strategos of the Arsinoite nome, divisions of Themistos and Polemon, from the Aurelii Polion and associates, sitologoi of the village of Tebtynis. There were measured out to us on the 2nd of the present month Phaophi of the current 5th year, from the produce of the past 4th year, by the public measure, levelled, on behalf of Tebtynis Year 5 of the Imperator Caesar Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Pius Felix and Marcus Aurelius Alexander Caesar, Augusti, Phaophi […]

The document is unfinished and was wiped out, so no quantities of grain were ever entered. Grain was measured 'levelled', i.e. with the measure struck flat rather than heaped.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Sitologenbericht (unvollendet und ausgewischt) [221 n. Chr.]). 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 · 29. Sept. - 27. Okt. 221 · Tebtynis (Arsinoites)

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