Ordre de payement
Aurelius Isidoros asks Aurelius Eros to, instead of giving a certain amount of grain to him as a rental, give this to another person, Aurelius Hierax, to whom Aurelius Isidoros owes this as a rental.
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 17558
Order to a tenant to deliver 20 artabas of wheat rent to a third party TM 17558Provenance unknown (Province of Egypt)February 11, 234 A.D.(?)
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An order from the landowner Aurelius Isidoros to his tenant farmer Aurelius Eros to pay 20 artabas of wheat from the rent he owes to Isidoros's friend Aurelius Hierax at harvest time, since Hierax has already advanced the same amount to Isidoros. It is dated Year 13, Mecheir 17, probably 11 February 234 AD.
In English machine translation
Aurelius Isidoros … son of (?) Lucius, to Aurelius Eros, farmer, many greetings.
Measure out to Aurelius Hierax, my friend, from the rents you owe me from the produce, 20 artabas of wheat, total 20 artabas of wheat, at the time of the harvest, and do not return them to me, because the same amount has been measured out to me by him.
Year 13, Mecheir 17.
Aurelius […]
The catalogue description reverses the debt somewhat; the text says Hierax has already measured out the same amount to Isidoros, so the tenant pays Hierax instead of Isidoros. The provenance is unknown.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Ordre de payement). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
p.got.10
Αὐρήλιος Ἰσίδωρος … Λουκίου Αὐρηλίῳ Ἔρωτι γεωργῷ πολλὰ χαίρειν. μέτρησον Αὐρηλίῳ Ἱέρακι φίλῳ ἀφʼ ὧν ὀφείλεις μοι φόρων γενήματος πυροῦ ἀρτάβας εἴκοσι , γίνονται πυροῦ ἀρτάβαι κ, καιρῷ συνκομιδῆς, καὶ μὴ αὐτὰς ἀποκαταστήσῃς μοι διὰ τὸ εἰς ἐμὲ μεμετρῆσθαι παρʼ αὐτοῦ τὰς ἴσας. ἔτους…