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Sitologos record of wheat transfers with onward transfer orders TM 16905Oxyrhynchites158 - 159

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A granary transfer record of wheat from the harvest of year 22 of Antoninus Pius, credited through the sitologoi (granary officials) of the western toparchy of the Oxyrhynchite nome. The totalled 16 artabas are then passed on by Sarapion to Herakleides, and by Herakleides to Zoilos, by successive transfer orders.

In English machine translation

Transferred, of wheat of the produce of the 22nd year of Antoninus Caesar the lord, through the sitologoi of the western toparchy, Pela district, to Sarapion son of Mnesitheos, four and one quarter artabas and six choinikes, total 4 1/4 artabas 6 choinikes. Of the same produce, also through the sitologoi of Monimou (?), to Mnesitheos son of Diogenes, through the slave Sarapion […], eleven and a half artabas, total 11 1/2 artabas. Of the same produce, another of the same, four choinikes, total altogether 16 artabas. I, Sarapion, the aforementioned: transfer to Herakleides son of Ep…thos the aforesaid 16 artabas, for the advance payment of the Sko district. I, Herakleides, the aforementioned: transfer to Zoilos son of Sarap(ion) the aforesaid sixteen artabas.

The verb diastellein refers to transferring grain credit between accounts in the state granary, functioning like a bank giro. 'Advance payment' renders prochreia, probably an advance on seed or taxes.

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.

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p.oxy.31.2591

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 158 - 159 · Oxyrhynchites

διεστάλησαν πυροῦ γενήματος κβ ἔτους Ἀντωνίνου καίσαρος τοῦ κυρίου διὰ σιτολόγων λιβὸς τοπαρχίας Πέλα τόπων Σαραπίωνι Μνησιθέου ἀρτάβαι τέσσαρες τέταρτον χοίνικες ἕξ, γίνονται ἀρτάβαι δ δ χοίνικες ϛ. οὗ γενήματος τοῦ αὐτοῦ καὶ διὰ σιτολόγων Μονίμου Μνησιθεῖ Διογένους διὰ τοῦ παιδ…