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Order to a sitologos to pay monthly wheat allowances to Diodotos TM 22838Hermopolis (?)16. Dez. 65

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An order addressed to the granary official Metokos asking him to pay out 9 artabas of wheat to Diodotos as monthly allowances for nine months of Nero's 11th and 12th years, with the authorization of Gaius Iulius Saluius. It was written on 16 December AD 65, probably at Hermopolis.

In English machine translation

[B] Diodotos son of Norbanas (and) Klara, with the concurrence of Gaius Iulius Saluius, to Metokos, sitologos, greeting. Measure out to me for the months Pharmouthi and Pachon and Pauni and Epeiph and Mesore of the eleventh year, five months, 5 artabas of wheat, and for the month Sebastos of the twelfth year and Phaophi and Neos Sebastos and Choiak, four months, 4 artabas of wheat, total 9 artabas of wheat. Year 12 of Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus Imperator, month Choiak 20. (2nd hand?) Gaius Iulius Saluius: measure out the 9 artabas of wheat, total 9 artabas of wheat, as stated above.

A sitologos was a granary official responsible for receiving and disbursing grain; the allowance of 1 artaba a month looks like a regular ration or grain dole. Sebastos and Neos Sebastos are honorific month names for Thoth and 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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p.lond.3.1213b

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 16. Dez. 65 · Hermopolis (?)

[B] Διόδοτος Νωρβάνας Κλάρας ἐπακολουθοῦντος Γαίου Ἰουλίου Σαλουίου Μητόκωι σιτολόγωι χαίρειν· μέτρησον ἐμοὶ ὑπὲρ μηνὸς Φαρμοῦθι καὶ Παχὼν καὶ Παῦνι καὶ Ἐπίφιφ καὶ Μεσσορὴ τοῦ ἑνδεκάτου ἔτους μηνῶν πέντε πυροῦ ἀρτάβας ε καὶ ὑπὲρ μηνὸς Σεβαστοῦ τοῦ δωδεκάτου ἔτους καὶ Φαῶφι καὶ Νέ…