Daily Report of Sitologoi to a Strategos
Report of the wheat payments made the same day in the name of two taxpayers of Karanis, addressed by the sitologoi of Ptolemais Nea to Theodoros, strategos of the Herakleidou meris
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Daily report of sitologoi on wheat paid by Karanis taxpayers TM 14405Ptolemais Nea, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of EgyptJune 17, 156 A.D.
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A daily report from the sitologoi (granary officials) of Ptolemais Nea in the Arsinoite nome to Theodoros, strategos of the Herakleides division, recording wheat deliveries made on behalf of two taxpayers from Karanis, totalling 18 1/2 artabas. It is dated Epeiph 23 of year 19 of Antoninus Pius, AD 156.
In English machine translation
To Theodoros, strategos of the Arsinoite nome, Herakleides division,
from Heraklees son of Petesouchos and
Ischyrion son of Herakleides and associates,
sitologoi of the village of Ptolemais Nea.
There were measured on the 23rd of
the month Epeiph of the current 19th year
of Antoninus Caesar the lord,
for the 40-aroura klerouchy, through the people from Karanis:
Chairemon son of Antigenes, 11 artabas of wheat;
Satabous son of Orsenouphis, 7 1/2 artabas of wheat;
total 18 1/2 artabas of wheat.
I, Ischyrion son of Herakleides, through my father
Herakleides,
have measured the 18 1/2 (eighteen and a half) artabas of wheat, total 18 1/2 artabas of wheat.
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The APIS record gives the date as June 17, but Epeiph 23 corresponds to 17 July, as in the HGV record. The final lines (υφλλε, ζ) are obscure, perhaps numerals or notations, and are left untranslated.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Tagesabrechnung von Sitologen). 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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