Request for payment of the price of compulsorily purchased wheat TM 16524Oxyrhynchos23. Jan. 100

To Achilles, royal scribe, from Didymos son of Spartalas and his brother Kallias, and Pasion son of Pasion and his brother Amois, and Kallias son of Kallias, and Kephalas son of Ploution, and Ploution son of Syros and all his sons, from the city of Oxyrhynchus, and Zoilos son of Ptolemaios and Pasion son of Thonis and Panetbeus son of Harmiysis, from Nemerai. We ask that there be sent from the public bank the sums owed to each of us as set out below and handed over through the agents of Julius Hermias, former strategos, for the price of wheat bought by compulsory purchase from the produce of the 1st year of the deified Nerva, which we measured into the public granary from the wheat levied on the village of Nemerai, at 8 drachmas per artaba: Didymos 2 artabas, 16 drachmas; his brother Kallias 1/2 artaba, 4 drachmas; Pasion 2 artabas, 16 drachmas; Amois 2 artabas, 16 drachmas; the other Kallias 7 3/4 artabas 4 choinikes, 62 drachmas 4 obols; Kephalas 3 artabas, 24 drachmas; Ploution and his sons 4 artabas, 32 drachmas; Zoilos 1 artaba, 8 drachmas; Pasion 1/2 artaba, 4 drachmas; Panetbeus 3 artabas, 24 drachmas; total 206 drachmas 4 obols, so that we may be benefited. Year 3 of Imperator Caesar Nerva Traianus Augustus Germanicus, Tybi 27, Augustan day. We, Didymos and Kallias, both sons of Spartalas, and Zoilos son of Ptolemaios, have submitted this. I, Didymos son of Spartalas, wrote also on behalf of the others who do not know letters. I, Pasion son of Pasion, have submitted this. We, Ploution son of Syros and his sons and Panetbeus son of Harmiysis, have submitted this. I, Pausiris son of Ploution, wrote also on behalf of the others who do not know letters. I, Kephalas son of Ploution, have submitted this. We, Amoitas son of Pasion and Pasion son of Thoonis, have submitted this. I, Amoitas son of Pasion, wrote on behalf of Pasion, who does not know letters. I, Kallias son of Kallias, have submitted this.