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Order to supply seed wheat to the farmer Elias TM 22484Oxyrhynchos27. Nov. - 26. Dez. 342

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An order from Sarapammon to the estate steward Papnoutios to issue 5 artabas of wheat seed to the farmer Elias for sowing. It was written at Oxyrhynchus in the month Choiak (late November to late December) of AD 342.

In English machine translation

From Sarapammon to Papnoutios, steward, greetings. Supply to Elias, farmer, for sowing, by the measure […], five artabas of wheat, total 5 artabas of wheat only. I, the same Sarapammon, have signed. Year 37, 19, 10, Choiak […]

The year formula 37, 19, 10 is a regnal-era dating used at Oxyrhynchus in the reign of Constantius II and Constans; the name of the measure used is lost. A pronoētēs was the manager of an estate or part of one.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Order from Sarapammon to Papnuthis). 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.48.3388

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 27. Nov. - 26. Dez. 342 · Oxyrhynchos

παρὰ Σαραπάμμωνος Παπνουτίῳ προνοητῇ χαίρειν. παράσχες Ἠλίᾳ γεωργῷ εἰς κατασπορὰν σίτου μέτρῳ […]ἀρτάβας πέντε, γίνονται πυροῦ ἀρτάβαι ε μόναι. ὁ αὐτὸς ὁ αὐτὸς Σαραπάμμων σεσημείωμαι. ἔτους λζ ιθ ι, Χοίακ