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Order to pay wheat for bread rations sent to Babylon TM 20851Memphites8. Aug. 610

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A payment order from Damianos to Ioannes, tax collector of Ptolemais, instructing him to supply Chael, notary of the most glorious topoteretes, with 50 artabas of wheat for bread rations made and sent to him at Babylon. It is dated Mesore 15 of the 13th indiction, 8 August 610, in the Memphite nome.

In English machine translation

[recto] Damianos to Ioannes, collector (apaitetes) of Ptolemais. Provide to Chael, notary of the most glorious topoteretes, the bread rations (psomia) made and sent to him in Babylon, on account of the kankellos of Alexandria: 50 artabas of wheat. Mesore 15, indiction 13. Total: 50 artabas of wheat, Mesore 15, indiction 13. [verso] [Deliver to Ioannes] from the lord Damianos: 50 artabas of wheat, indiction 13, Mesore 15.

The topoteretes was a high deputy official; kankellos (Latin cancellus) probably denotes the official measure or office of Alexandria. Babylon is the fortress town near modern Old Cairo.

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.

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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 8. Aug. 610 · Memphites

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