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Order to a sitologos to transfer wheat to Arsinoe TM 22248Oxyrhynchites26. Aug. 123

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Theon son of Herakleides instructs Faustos alias Amphion, granary official of the eastern toparchy at Pakerke, to transfer 16 1/4 artabas 6 choinikes of wheat from his deposit to Arsinoe daughter of Theon. Written in the Oxyrhynchite nome on 26 August 123.

In English machine translation

Theon son of Herakleides son of Sarapion, his mother being Aline, to Faustos also called Amphion, sitologos of the eastern toparchy, Pakerke district, greeting. Transfer from the wheat of the produce of the 7th year of Hadrian the lord which you hold on deposit for me, to Arsinoe daughter of Theon, sixteen and a quarter artabas and six choinikes, total 16 1/4 artabas 6 choinikes. Year seven of Imperator Caesar Traianus Hadrianus Augustus, 3rd intercalary day.

A sitologos was an official in charge of a public granary, where individuals kept grain on deposit and could order transfers like bank payments. Arsinoe is presumably Theon's daughter.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Sitologi document). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.

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p.oxy.38.2864

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 26. Aug. 123 · Oxyrhynchites

Θέων Ἡρακλείδου τοῦ Σαραπίωνος μητρὸς Ἀλίνης Φαύστῳ τῷ καὶ Ἀμφίωνι σιτολόγῳ ἀπηλιώτου τοπαρχίας Πακέρκη τόπων χαίρειν. διάστειλον ἀφʼ ὧν ἔχεις μου ἐν θέματι πυροῦ γενήματος ζ ἔτους Ἁδριανοῦ τοῦ κυρίου Ἀρσινόῃ Θέωνος ἀρτάβας δέκα ἓξ τέταρτον χοίνικας ἓξ, γίνονται ἀρτάβαι ιϛ δ χοίν…