Order for a payment
Order from Phib, boat-owner, to Aphous, steward, to pay a notary 5 artabae of wheat for the carriage of wine. Subscription on the verso.
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 22053
Order to pay wheat to a notary for the transport of wine TM 22053OxyrhynchusEarly 6th century
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An order for payment from Phib, a shipmaster, to Aphous, steward of an aristocratic lady's estate, instructing him to give the notary Didymos 5 artabas of uncleaned wheat for transporting wine from the 9th-indiction vintage. It was written at Oxyrhynchus on Mesore 19 of a 9th indiction year.
In English machine translation
[recto]
† To my brother Aphous, steward of the most illustrious lady, from Phib, shipmaster. Provide to the lord Didymos, notary, for the transport of wine of the produce of the 9th indiction, 5 artabas only of uncleaned wheat, wheat uncleaned 5 artabas only. Mesore 19, 9th indiction.
Through me, Phib, I agree.
[verso]
Orders (?) of Phib the sailor, which were also given to Didymos the notary, 5 artabas.
Another catalogue dates the papyrus to the early 6th century; the text itself gives only an indiction year. The verso calls Phib a sailor while the recto calls him a shipmaster (naukleros).
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 of Wheat). 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.16.1947
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