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An order from Sarapion, secretary of the official Julius Sarapion, instructing the grain official Dionysios at Senepta in the Middle toparchy of the Oxyrhynchite nome to transfer wheat of the seventh year of Hadrian from Julius Sarapion's deposit account to Pekysis son of Pekysis. It dates to summer AD 123; the end is lost.
The hypomnematographos was a senior official at Alexandria; such transfer orders (diastolai) moved grain between accounts in public granaries. The amount and remaining details were in the lost lines.
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.
Σαραπίων γραμματεὺς Ἰουλίου Σαραπίωνος ὑπομνηματογράφου Διονυσίῳ σιτολόγῳ μέσης τοπαρχίας Σενέπτα τόπων χαίρειν. διάστειλον ἀφʼ οὗ ἔχεις ἐν θέματι πυροῦ γενήματος τοῦ ἐνεστῶτος ἑβδόμου ἔτους Ἁδριανοῦ καίσαρος τοῦ κυρίου τοῦ Ἰουλίου Σαραπίωνος Πεκύσει Πεκύσιος …[…] [… 2 lines lost…
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