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Nomination of Psois to escort wheat samples to Alexandria TM 22548Eleira (Arabia)15. Dez. 183

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Dioskoros, village scribe of Eleira and other villages in the Arabian nome, nominates Psois, aged 33, with property worth 600 drachmas, to the strategos Ammonios for the liturgy of escorting samples of purchased wheat shipped to the Neapolis granaries at Alexandria. Dated 15 December 183.

In English machine translation

To Ammonios, strategos of the Arabian (nome), from Dioskoros, village scribe of Eleira and other villages of the part of the toparchy beyond the city of the Phakousitai. Being asked by you for a name for the escort of samples (deigmatokatagogia) of wheat being brought down to Alexandria to the granaries in Neapolis, from the produce of year 23, of purchased wheat, I give the person written below, who is well-off and suitable. He is: Psois, mother Thaesis daughter of Pachothes, aged 33, from the village of Eleira, having property in house-plots of 600 drachmas. Year 24 of Imperator Caesar Marcus Aurelius Commodus Antoninus Augustus Armeniacus Medicus Parthicus Sarmaticus Germanicus Maximus, Hadrianos 18. I, Dioskoros, village scribe, submitted (this) through Didymos, assistant.

The deigmatokatagogia was a compulsory public service (liturgy) of conveying sealed samples of grain cargoes, to check the grain's quality at delivery. Synagorastikos wheat was grain compulsorily purchased by the state.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Nomination to a Liturgy). 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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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 15. Dez. 183 · Eleira (Arabia)

Ἀμμωνίωι στρατηγῷ Ἀραβίας παρὰ Διοσκόρου κωμογραφμματέως Ηλειρων καὶ ἄλλων κωμῶν μέρους τοπαρχίας ὑπὲρ Φακουσειτῶν πόλιν. αἰτούμενος ὑπὸ σοῦ ὄνομα εἰς δειγματοκαταγωγίαν πυροῦ καταγομένου εἰς Ἀλεξάνδρειαν εἰς τοὺς ἐν τῇ Νέᾳ Πόλει θησαυροὺς ἀπὸ γενήματος κγ ἔτους συναγοραστικοῦ πυ…