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An order from Zoilos to Horion, probably a granary official, to deliver 67 artabas of wheat to Sarapion, exegetes and superintendent of the annona bread, on behalf of five hamlets of the Oxyrhynchite nome. The wheat is credited at 300 drachmas. It dates to about AD 293.
The annona was the state levy in kind used to supply bread, here administered through a town magistrate. The date clause names several joint regnal years of the Tetrarchs, now 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 of Annona). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
Ζωίλος Ὡρίωνι χαίρειν. παράδος Σαραπίωνι ἐξηγητῇ ἐπιμελητῇ ἄρτου ἀννωνικοῦ ὑπὲρ τῶν ὑπογεγραμμένων ἐποικίων α καὶ β ἐπιγραφῆς, Πλελὼ τὰς λοιπὰς ἀρτάβας ϛ, Ψώβθεως μέσης ἀρτάβας ιη, Ξενάρχου τὰς λοιπὰς ἀρτάβας ιε, Τακολκείλεως ἀρτάβας ιη, Μασσιγγοφόρου ἀρτάβας ι, γίνονται πυροῦ ἀρ…
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