Governor's order to Aphrodite to ship wheat for the annona to Alexandria TM 18994Aphrodites kome (Antaiopolites)AD 531

[1] Flavius Theodoros Menas Julianus Iakkobos, the most magnificent comes and governor of the province of the Thebaid, for the 4th time (?): The time having arrived at which care must be taken for the indispensable grain transport of the fortunate tenth indiction, avoiding all blame for negligence, make haste with all fear to send it off to the great city of the Alexandrians, loading the required amount on small boats directly and immediately, according to the schedule below, at the risk of the office staff; for it is for this reason that [an officer] has been sent from the office. legi legi † recognovi (checked) To the people of the village of Aphrodite in the Antaiopolite nome. [2] It is necessary that from your village, following the practice of the past ninth indiction, the amount set out below on account of the shipment (embole) of the tenth indiction be brought in and loaded onto boats, and that the headman and the overseer and the sailors, together with the boats loaded with the produce, be sent to the office for the customary processing of the records, so that afterwards the same amount may be sent to the great city of Alexandria: wheat by the kankellon measure, 6,053 artabas as follows: † account by small boats, wheat by the kankellon measure, 2,000 artabas account of the great shipment, wheat by the kankellon measure, 4,053 artabas