p.oxy.10.1304
[… ? lines lost …] [… 9 lines lost …] δεόμεθα ἐπισταλῆναι ἐκ τοῦ δημοσίου τὰς ὀφειλομένας ἡμῖν ὑπὲρ τιμῆς πυροῦ συναγοραστικοῦ οὗ ἐμετρήσαμεν ἕως κγ μηνὸς Καισαρείου. [… ? lines lost …]
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 21774
Application for payment for requisitioned wheat TM 21774Oxyrhynchos169 - 177 (?)
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A fragment of an application from a group of people asking that the money owed to them from public funds be paid, for the price of wheat they delivered under compulsory purchase up to the 23rd of Kaisareios (Mesore). It comes from Oxyrhynchus and is dated about AD 169-177.
In English machine translation
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we ask that there be sent from the public account the sums owed to us for the price of the requisitioned (purchased) wheat which we measured out up to the 23rd of the month Kaisareios.
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'Synagorastic' wheat was grain bought compulsorily by the state from producers at a fixed price. Kaisareios is the Roman-era name for the Egyptian month Mesore.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Application for Payment). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.