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Order for delivery of wheat and wine to Silvanus TM 15779Pesla (Hermopolites) oder Hermopolis23. Sept. 303 (?)

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An order to deliver to Silvanus quantities of wheat and wine from the produce of several earlier regnal years, with their values in drachmas, followed by a signed confirmation. It dates probably to 23 September 303, from Pesla in the Hermopolite nome or Hermopolis.

In English machine translation

[… lines lost …] […] give to Silvanus […] from Pachon to […] from the produce of years 18 and 17 and 10, of wine 2 jars [and from the produce of the same years, of wheat] 1 1/2 artabas, and [1 jar, and secondly from the drawing (?) of years 19] and 18 and 11, 3 jars. [Total of the order: of wheat from] the produce of years 18 and 17 and 10 [1 1/2 artabas at … drachmas] and of wine from the produce of the same years 2 jars [at 600 drachmas and 1 jar at] 500 drachmas, and secondly from the drawing (?) [of years 19 and 18 and 11, 3 jars] at 300 drachmas. [I have signed: from the produce of years 18 and 17] and 10, of wheat one and a half artabas [at …]hundred drachmas, and of wine from the produce of the same years two jars at six [hundred] drachmas and one jar at five hundred drachmas and secondly from the drawing [of years 19 and 18 and 11, three jars at] three hundred drachmas. There being another 70 jars of wine and vinegar. Year 20 and […], Thoth 25.

Much of the text is restored from its repetitive structure. The term rhysis, here rendered 'drawing', seems to refer to a vintage drawn from the vats as opposed to 'produce' (genema).

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below. It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.

cpr.6.23

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 23. Sept. 303 (?) · Pesla (Hermopolites) oder Hermopolis

[… ? lines lost …] […]δὸς Σιλβανῷ […]ἀπὸ Παχὼν ἕως […]ἀπὸ γενήματος ιη καὶ ιζ καὶ ι οἴνου κεράμια β καὶ ἀπὸ γενήματος τοῦ αὐτοῦ σίτου ἀρτάβην α 𐅵 καὶ κεράμιον α καὶ δεύτερον ἀπὸ ῥύσεως ιθ καὶ ιη και ια κεράμια γ γίνεται τοῦ ἐπιστάλματος σίτου ἀπὸ γενήματος ιη καὶ ιζ καὶ ι ἀρτάβη …