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A request to Dios, strategos of the Oxyrhynchite nome, from Flavia Dionysia, a woman entitled to act without a guardian, asking that the treasury pay her the price of 108 artabas of wheat she delivered to the granary officials of Kerkemounis under a compulsory purchase ordered by the prefect Pompeius Planta. It dates to November AD 99, at Oxyrhynchus.
Synagorastikos wheat was grain bought compulsorily by the state at a fixed price, which the supplier then had to claim back. Neos Sebastos is an Oxyrhynchite month name corresponding roughly to Hathyr (October-November).
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.
Δίῳ στρατηγῷ παρὰ Φλαυίας Διονυσίας καὶ ὡς χρηματίζει ᾗ συνκεχώρηται χωρὶς κυρίου χρηματίζειν. δέομαι ἐπισταλῆναι ἐκ τοῦ δημοσίου τὰς ὀφειλομένας μοι ὑπὲρ τιμῆς πυροῦ συναγοραστικοῦ γενήματος τοῦ διελθόντος β ἔτους οὗ ἐμέτρησα ἀκολούθως τοῖς κελευσθεῖσι ὑπὸ Πομπηίου Πλάντα τοῦ κρ…
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