Order for delivery of vegetable seed to oil-makers of Pesla TM 15796Hermopolites26. Apr. - 25. Mai 301

An order from Hyperechios to Apollonios, receiver of the Pesla area, recording that he delivered 15 artabas of vegetable seed from the Nesiotikos district to two oil-makers of Pesla, Taroous and Kollouthos, for sale at 1,600 drachmas per artaba, 4 talents in total. It was issued in the month Pachon of AD 301 in the Hermopolite nome.

In English machine translation

"Vegetable seed" (lachanon) was pressed for oil, hence the sale to oil-makers; the regnal year 17/16/9 refers to the joint reign of Diocletian, Maximian, and their Caesars. 15 artabas at 1,600 drachmas comes to 24,000 drachmas, which equals the 4 talents stated.

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