Order to a framer to pay 23 artabai of wheat to a dekaprotos
Order to a framer to pay 23 artabai of wheat to a dekaprotos. The name of the receiver is in the nominative instead of the dative (l. 1).
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Order to a farmer to deliver wheat to a dekaprotos TM 21935Oxyrhynchos, Oxyrhynchite nome, Egypt297 A.D.
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An order from Apollonios to the farmer Horpaesis to deliver 23 artabas of wheat to Demetrianos, a dekaprotos (tax collector), for the regnal years 13, 12 and 5. It was written at Oxyrhynchus in August 297.
In English machine translation
Apollonios to Horpaesis, farmer, greetings.
Measure out to Demetrianos, dekaprotos, for the 13th and 12th and 5th year, twenty-three artabas of wheat, total 23 artabas.
Year 13 and 12 and 5, Mesore 16.
I, Apollonios, have signed.
Apollonios son of Heras.
The triple regnal year (13, 12 and 5) reflects the joint reigns of Diocletian, Maximian and the Caesars Constantius and Galerius. The dekaprotoi were local officials responsible for collecting grain taxes.
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 to a Decemprimus). 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.12.1571
Ἀπολλώνιος Ὁρπαήσι γεωργῷ χαίρειν. παραμέτρησον Δημητριανῷ δεκαπρώτῳ ὑπὲρ τοῦ ιγ ἔτους καὶ ιβ ἔτους καὶ ε ἔτους πυροῦ ἀρτάβας εἴκοσι τρεῖς, γίνονται ἀρτάβαι κγ. ἔτους ιγ ἔτους καὶ ιβ ἔτους καὶ ε ἔτους Μεσορὴ ιϛ. Ἀπολλώνιος σεσημείωμαι Ἀπολλώνιος Ἡρᾶ.