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An order from Sarapion to the dekaprotos Demetrianos to deliver 50 artabas of fenugreek to the baker Epaphroditos, out of 100 artabas released to him, cancelling an earlier order for 100 artabas intended for baking bread for the soldiers. Written at Oxyrhynchus in May 299.
A dekaprotos was a municipal official responsible for collecting and managing taxes in kind. The regnal date counts the years of the co-emperors Diocletian, Maximian and the Caesars.
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 Baker). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
παρὰ Σαραπίωνος Δημητριανῷ δεκαπρώτῳ χαίρειν. δὸς Ἐπαφροδίτῳ ἀρτοκόπῳ ἀπὸ τῶν ἀπολυθεισῶν αὐτῷ ἀρταβῶν ἑκατὸν τήλεως ἀρτάβας πεντήκοντα, γίνονται ἀρτάβαι ν, ἀκύρου ὄντος τοῦ προτέρου ἐπιστάλματος τοῦ εἰς ἀρτοποιίαν τῶν γενναιοτάτων στρατιωτῶν δοθέντος σοι τῶν ἀρταβῶν ἑκατόν . ἔτο…
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