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Letter to Kallikrates on conversion rates for barley paid instead of wheat TM 1627unbekanntMitte III v.Chr.

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A letter or memorandum to a certain Kallikrates, urging him to remind Dionysodoros to have barley delivered in place of wheat accepted at the correct conversion rate, since some payers had been charged too much. The writer offers to recopy the loan account onto four sheets. It dates to the mid-3rd century BC, probably from the Zenon archive milieu.

In English machine translation

If you remind Dionysodoros, before the receipts of grain are dealt with, Kallikrates, to instruct that from those who have measured in barley instead of wheat and wheat-barley, and if any other such kind is measured in, the amount be accepted according to the proper rate, no small quantity of grain will be lightened for you, because for some 3 artabas have been reckoned instead of one and two-thirds, for others two, for others even more, and for some according to the proper rate. This is easy, because nothing of this sort has been specified in the accounts, but in the account of the loans itself, which we shall copy out and enter in the same way; for 4 sheets will be enough. And he will plead in defence that the sitologoi are responsible, since they did not specify these things.

The beginning of the letter is lost. Sitologoi were the officials in charge of public granaries; 'wheat-barley' (krithopyros) is a mixed grain.

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.

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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · Mitte III v.Chr.

ἐὰν μνησθῆις Διονυσοδώρωι πρὸ τοῦ τὰς εἰσμετρήσεις πραγματευθῆναι Καλλικράτην, ὅπως παρὰ τῶν τὴν ἀντὶ τοῦ πυροῦ καὶ κριθοπύρου κριθὴν εἰσμεμετρημένων καὶ εἴ τι ἄλλο τοιοῦτο γένος εἰσμετρεῖται συντάξηι ἐκ τοῦ κατὰ λόγον προσδέχεσθαι, οὐκ ὀλίγον πλῆθος σίτου σοι κουφισθήσεται, διὰ …