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An order from Ploutarchos to the estate manager Philantinoos to deliver 8 artabas of wheat to the granary officials of the village of Texei, on account of unsown land. It was written on 8 July 304 in the Oxyrhynchite nome.
The double regnal year (20 and 12) refers to the joint reigns of Diocletian/Maximian and Constantius/Galerius. A pronoetes was a manager or agent of an estate, and sitologoi were officials in charge of public granaries.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Ordine di consegna). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
[r] παρὰ Πλουτάρχου Φιλαντινόῳ προνοητῇ χαίρειν. δὸς σιτολόγοις Τεξεὶ ὑπὲρ ἀσπόρου πυροῦ ἀρτάβας ὀκτώ, γίνονται ἀρτάβαι η. σεσημείωμαι. ἔτους κ καὶ ιβ Ἐπεὶφ ιδ. [v] ἐπίσταλμα σίτου τοῦ κ ἔτους ιβ ἔτους. Θώθ, εἰς ἀναλώματα τοῦ κα ἔτους καὶ ιγ ἔτους.
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