Order for a payment
Order from Phib, boat-owner, to Aphous, steward, for two payments of wheat. Subscription on the verso.
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 22054
Order to the steward of Pela for payment of wheat to Martyrios TM 22054OxyrhynchusEarly 6th century
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An order from Phib, a shipowner, to Aphous, steward of the estate at Pela, to hand over 40 artabas of unclean wheat to Martyrios, an assistant, and 24 artabas on behalf of Anoup, secretary of Tholthis, 64 artabas in all. It comes from Oxyrhynchus and is dated to Pachon 29 of a ninth indiction year.
In English machine translation
[recto]
From
† To my lord brother Aphous, steward of Pela, from Phib, shipowner.
Provide to my lord Martyrios, assistant, forty artabas of dirty wheat, dirty wheat 40 artabas, only. Pachon 29, year 9 (of the indiction). Likewise on behalf of Anoup, secretary of Tholthis, twenty-four artabas of dirty wheat, total together dirty wheat 64 artabas only.
Through me, Phib: it is in order.
[verso]
Orders of Phib son of Menas, sailor, which were also given to Martyrios, assistant: 64 artabas.
The museum record dates the papyrus to the early 6th century, while the date 471 rests on the indiction year 9. "Dirty wheat" (sitos rhyparos) means grain not yet cleaned of chaff and impurities.
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.16.1948
[r] παρὰ † τῷ κυρίῳ μου ἀδελφῷ Ἀφοῦτι προνοητῇ Πέλα παρὰ Φὶβ ναυκλήρου. παράσχοῦ τῷ κυρίῳ μου Μαρτυρίῳ βοηθῷ σίτου ῥυπαροῦ ἀρτάβας τεσσαράκοντα, σίτου ῥυπαροῦ ἀρτάβας μ, μόνας. Παχὼν κθ θ ἔτους. ὁμοίως ὑπὲρ Ἀνοῦπ γραμματέως Θώλθεως σίτου ῥυπαροῦ ἀρτάβας εἴκοσι τέσσαρας , γίνονται…