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An order from Diogenes, a former market official and gymnasiarch, acting through his steward Hermias, instructing the state granary officials of the upper toparchy (Sko district) to transfer 19 1/2 artabas of wheat from his deposit to Thonis son of Thonis of Oxyrhynchus. It was written in the Oxyrhynchite nome in AD 148.
The verb diastellein here means to transfer grain between accounts in the public granary, functioning like a cheque drawn on a deposit. Sitologoi were the officials in charge of the state granaries.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Sitologus Document). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
Διογένης τῶν ἠγορανομηκότων καὶ γεγυμνασιαρχηκότων διʼ Ἑρμίου οἰκονόμου σιτολόγοις ἄνω τοπαρχίας Σκὼ τόπων. διαστείλατε ἀφʼ οὗ ἔχετέ μου ἐν θέματι πυροῦ γενήματος ια ἔτους Ἀντωνείνου καίσαρος τοῦ κυρίου Θώνει Θώνιος τοῦ Θωνσίου ἀπʼ Ὀξυρύγχων πόλεως πυροῦ ἀρτάβας ιθ 𐅵, γίνονται πυ…
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