Order of the strategos for a loan of seed wheat to a farmer TM 22577Hermopolites

Wheat, 34 1/3 1/8 1/48 artabas. Aemilius Theon, strategos of the Hermopolite nome, to the sitologoi of Thotis (?) [and] Thynis, greetings. Measure out, with the concurrence of Dionysammon, royal scribe, to Julius Akrabanos, farmer, sent on by Julius Heronianus, the officer in charge of the peace, since he asked that instructions be sent to the aforesaid sitologoi […] […] and the rest with the […] […] in the month Phaophi of the [current 7th year], the [35 artabas of wheat] in total, deducting for the 1 [1/2] per cent [difference] of the new measure compared with the [old, 48th of an artaba] (?), added to the imperial account; [remainder] of wheat, clean, unadulterated, [free of earth], unthreshed (?) [and] sieved, by the public measure [with the prescribed] measuring, 34 1/3 1/8 1/48 artabas. Receive the customary receipts written in duplicate and deliver to me [the one]. Year 7 of the Emperors [Caesars Lucius Septimius] Severus Pius Pertinax [Arabicus Adiabenicus] Parthicus Maximus and Ma[rcus Aurelius Antoninus] Augusti, Phaophi 16. [Aemilius Theon], strategos: measure out the [thirty]-four and 1/3 1/8 1/48 artabas of wheat, [total] 34 1/3 [1/8 1/48] artabas of wheat. [Dio]nysammon, royal scribe: measure out the thirty-[four 1/3 1/8] 1/48 artabas of wheat, [total 34 1/3 1/8 1/48 artabas of wheat].