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Order to a sitologos for wheat rations to a slave of Norbana Clara TM 22837Hermopolis (?)16. Dez. 65

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An order from Diodotos, a slave of the Roman landowner Norbana Clara, countersigned by Gaius Iulius Salvius, instructing the granary official Metokos to pay four artabas of wheat to his fellow slave Sophos as rations for four months. It is dated 16 December AD 65, probably at Hermopolis.

In English machine translation

[A] Diodotos, slave of Norbana Clara, with Gaius Iulius Salvius countersigning, to Metokos, sitologos, greetings. Measure out to Sophos, fellow slave, for the months of Sebastos and Phaophi and Neos Sebastos and Choiak, 4 months, four artabas of wheat, total 4. Year 12 of Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus Imperator, month of Choiak 20. Gaius Iulius Salvius: measure out the aforementioned four artabas of wheat as stated above.

A sitologos was a granary official responsible for receiving and paying out grain. One artaba a month appears to be the ration allowed to the slave, and Neos Sebastos is an honorific month name corresponding to Hathyr.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below. 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 · 16. Dez. 65 · Hermopolis (?)

[A] Διόδοτος Νωρβανᾶς Κλαρᾶς ἐπακολουθοῦντος Γαίου Ἰουλίου Σαλουίου Μητόκῳ σιτολόγωι χαίρειν· μέτρησον Σόφῳ συνδούλῳ ὑπὲρ μηνὸς Σεβαστοῦ καὶ Φαῶφι καὶ Νέου Σεβαστοῦ καὶ Χοιὰχ μηνῶν δ πυροῦ ἀρτάβας τέσσαρας γίνονται δ. ἔτους ιβ Νέρωνος Κλαυδίου Καίσαρος Σεβαστοῦ Γερμανικοῦ Αὐτοκρά…