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Request for payment of the price of requisitioned wheat TM 16522Oxyrhynchos2. Dez. 99

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Apollonios alias Secundus of Oxyrhynchus asks the strategos Dios to order payment of 192 drachmas owed to him for 12 artabas of wheat he delivered under compulsory purchase ordered by the prefect Pompeius Planta. He swears by Trajan that he owes nothing on this account. Dated 2 December AD 99 at Oxyrhynchus.

In English machine translation

To Dios, strategos, from Apollonios also called Secundus, son of Epimachos, from the city of Oxyrhynchus. I ask that there be sent instructions for payment of the sums owed to me for the price of the purchased-by-requisition wheat of the crop of the past year 2 of Imperator Caesar Nerva Traianus Augustus Germanicus, which I measured out in accordance with the orders of Pompeius Planta, the most excellent prefect, through the sitologoi of Choisis and Athychis, 12 artabas at 16 drachmas, 192 drachmas; and I swear by Imperator Caesar Nerva Traianus Germanicus that I owe nothing on account of […] or of the purchased wheat up to the present day, or may I be liable to the oath. Year 3 of Imperator Caesar Nerva Traianus Augustus Germanicus, Choiak 5. I, Apollonios also called Secundus, son of Epimachos, have submitted this and sworn the oath.

"Synagorastikos" wheat was grain bought compulsorily by the state from producers at a fixed price, here 16 drachmas per artaba. Choisis and Athychis are villages of the Oxyrhynchite nome.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Request for Refund of Price of πυρὸς συναγοραστικός). 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 · 2. Dez. 99 · Oxyrhynchos

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