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A payment order in which Stephanos, a servant of the Theotokos (Virgin Mary), instructs Ioannes, the tax or rent collector of Ptolemais, to supply 2 1/2 artabas of bitter vetch as fodder for a bull and six oxen belonging to the monastery of Ptolemais. It is dated Pharmouthi 30 of the 12th indiction, corresponding to 25 April 609, in the Memphite region.
The fodder is reckoned for Epeiph of the 11th indiction though the order is dated in the 12th; the arithmetic of the shares per animal is partly lost. A 'progeorgos' was a senior farmer or estate foreman.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Zahlungsauftrag). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
[r] Στέφανοςδοῦλος τῆς θεοτόκου Ἰωάννῃ ἀπαιτητῇ Πτολεμαίδος. παράσχου εἰς τροφὴν ταύρου α καὶ βοιδίων ϛ […]…[…]ρ… τοῦ μοναστηρίου Πτολεμαίδος τρεφομένων διὰ Σαμοῦν προγεωργοῦ ὑπὲρ τοῦ Ἐπὶφ μηνὸς ια ἰνδικτίωνος ἑκάστῳ βοιδίῳ ἡμερῶν ζ γ καὶ 𐅵 ὑπὲρ ταύρου α γίνονται δύο ἥμισυ· γίνον…
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