Order for Payment in Kind
Authorization addressed to the sitologi by Dionysius, a victor in the games and late exegetes, for the payment to Apion of a quantity of wheat.
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Order to sitologoi to transfer wheat from a deposit to Apion TM 20647Oxyrhynchos160 CE
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An order addressed to the granary officials (sitologoi) of the Kerkeurosis district by Dionysios, a games victor and former exegetes of Oxyrhynchus, acting through his secretary Horion. It instructs them to transfer 25 1/2 artabas 9 choinikes of wheat from his deposit to Apion son of Apion, who countersigns that he presented the order. Dated 17 November 160 at Oxyrhynchus.
In English machine translation
Dionysios son of Faustus also called Amphion, of the victors in the sacred games and former exegetai of the city of the Oxyrhynchites, through Horion, secretary, to the sitologoi of the middle toparchy, Kerkeurosis district, greetings. Transfer from the wheat you hold on deposit for me, of the produce of the past 23rd year of Antoninus Caesar the lord, to Apion son of Apion, twenty-five and a half artabas, nine choinikes, total 25 1/2 artabas 9 choinikes.
Year 24 of Antoninus Caesar the lord, Hathyr 21.
I, Apion son of Apion, have presented (this).
The verb diastellein here means to transfer grain by book entry between granary accounts, functioning like a bank transfer in kind. The exegetes was a senior municipal magistrate.
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 in Kind). 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.oxy.3.516
Διονύσιος Φαύστου τοῦ καὶ Ἀμφείονος τῶν ἱερονικῶν καὶ ἐξηγητευκότων τῆς Ὀξυρυγχιτῶν πόλεως διὰ Ὡρίωνος γραμματέως σιτολόγοις μέσης τοπαρχίας Κερκευρώσεως τόπων χαίρειν. διαστείλατε ἃς ἔχετέ μου ἐν θέματι πυροῦ γενήματος τοῦ διελθόντος κγ ἔτους Ἀντωνείνου Καίσαρος τοῦ κυρίου Ἀπίων…