cpr.7.12
Αὐρηλίῳ Διονυσολέοντι στρατηγῷ Ἡρακλεοπολίτου παρὰ Αὐρηλίων Ἀπολλωνίου καὶ μετόχων σιτολόγων κώμης Τοεμήσεως. ἐμετρήθησαν ἡμῖν τῷ μηνὶ Μεσορὴ τοῦ ἐνεστῶτος … ἔτους Μάρκου Ἀντωνίου Γορδιανοῦ Καίσαρος τοῦ [… ? lines lost …]
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 15826
Monthly report of the sitologoi of Toemesis to the strategos TM 15826Toemesis (Herakleopolites)25. Juli - 23. Aug. 242
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Beginning of a monthly report from Apollonios and his fellow sitologoi (grain collectors) of the village of Toemesis to Aurelius Dionysoleon, strategos of the Herakleopolite nome, on grain measured into the village granary during Mesore. It dates to the reign of Gordian III, AD 242.
In English machine translation
To Aurelius Dionysoleon, strategos of the Herakleopolite nome,
from Aurelii Apollonios and associates, sitologoi of the village of Toemesis.
There was measured to us in the month of Mesore of the present […] year of Marcus Antonius Gordianus Caesar the […]
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Sitologoi were village officials responsible for receiving and storing state grain. The figures of the report itself are lost; only the heading survives.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Monatsbericht der Sitologen des Dorfes Toemesis). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.