Sworn request for payment for wheat delivered under compulsory purchase TM 22449Oxyrhynchos99 - 100

A sworn request from an inhabitant of Oxyrhynchus asking to be repaid 24 drachmas for 1 1/2 artabas of wheat that his minor son Theon delivered under the compulsory purchase ordered by the prefect Pompeius Planta. The wheat came from the harvest of Trajan's second year and was delivered through the granary officials of Tychinnekotis; the document is dated in Trajan's third year (AD 99-100).

In English machine translation

"Synagorastikos" wheat was grain the state bought compulsorily from producers at a fixed price, here 16 drachmas per artaba. The opening, with the addressee and the declarant's name, is lost.

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