Order to pay wheat to a brickmaker for making baked bricks TM 17211Oxyrhynchos2. Sept. 269

An order issued by the office of the agent of the most excellent Ammonion to Maximus, an agent, to pay 20 artabas of wheat from the year 2 crop to the brickmaker Patermouthis as wages for making baked bricks. It was written at Oxyrhynchus on 2 September 269; the other side preserves fragments of a register of official documents, mentioning a letter to the strategoi and public posting.

In English machine translation

The 'tenth measure' (metron dekaton) is a specific measure used for calculating artabas. The number of ten-thousands of bricks is lost.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Order for Payment). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.