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A payment order from Stephanos, 'servant of the Mother of God', instructing Ioannes, collector at Ptolemais, to supply 6 1/4 artabas of bitter vetch as fodder for bulls and oxen for the month of Thoth, through the head farmer Samous. It is dated Thoth 3 of the 13th indiction (31 August 609) in the Memphite region.
The verso note gives indiction 12 rather than 13, apparently a slip. The per-day rate figure is uncertain; orobos is bitter vetch, a common animal fodder.
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] Στέφανος δοῦλος τῆς θεοτόκου Ἰωάννῃ ἀπαιτητῇ Πτολεμαίδος. παράσχου εἰς τροφὴν ταύρων γ καὶβοιδίων … κατʼ ἔτος διδομένην διὰ Σαμοῦν προγεωργοῦ ἑκάστῳ ἡμερῶν ζ γ γινομένας ὑπὲρ ἡμερῶν λ τοῦ Θὼθ μηνὸς ὀρόβου ἀρτάβας ἓξ τέταρτον γίνονται ὀρόβου ἀρτάβαι ϛ δ μόνον. † μηνὸς Θὼθ γ ἰν…
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