Two letters to a strategos about impure grain shipments TM 20408Oxyrhynchos

[verso] […] Antonius Aelianus to the strategos of the Diospolite nome of the Thebaid, greetings. Since the cargo brought down from the nome under you [through] […]ausis son of Sipos and his associates, amounting to 2,000 artabas of wheat, appeared not clean at the lifting of the samples, I ordered half an artaba to be sifted for barley [and] sifted for earth, and there resulted a deficiency of barley two hundredths and of earth likewise one half of a hundredth. Therefore exact at your own risk from the sitologoi who loaded the wheat the total, with the difference, of 50 3/4 artabas of wheat, and the additional measures and the other expenses, and after adding them to the account of the administration inform me. Year 29, Phaophi 30. […] I received two, total 2. Another. Antonius Aelianus to the strategos of the Diospolite nome of the Thebaid, greetings. Since the cargo brought down from the nome under you through […]nychos son of Pangorsaouis, amounting to 250 artabas of wheat, appeared not clean at the lifting of the samples, I ordered half an artaba to be sifted for barley and sifted for earth, [and there resulted] a deficiency of barley 1 1/4 hundredths, [and of earth likewise]. [Therefore exact from the sitologoi] who loaded the wheat at your own risk the total of grain, with the difference, […] artabas of wheat [and the] […] […]