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Order to a sitologos for payment of 4 artabas of wheat to a slave of Norbana Clara TM 22840Hermopolis (?)5. Jan. 66

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An order addressed to the granary official Metokos by Diodotos, a slave of the Roman lady Norbana Clara, asking him to pay out 4 artabas of wheat for four months of the 11th year, countersigned by Gaius Julius Salvius. It is dated 5 January AD 66, probably at Hermopolis.

In English machine translation

[B] Diodotos, slave of Norbana Clara, with Gaius Julius Salvius acting as supervisor (?), to Metokos, sitologos: measure out to me the 4 artabas of wheat which I advanced together with Tho...gelos, my fellow slave, for the month of Pharmouthi and Pachon and Pauni and Epeiph, 4 months, of the 11th year. Year 12 of Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus Imperator, Tybi 10. I, Gaius Julius Salvius, have signed for the 4 artabas of wheat, total 4 artabas of wheat, as stated above.

A sitologos was an official in charge of a public granary. The name of the fellow slave is partly illegible, and the provenance is uncertain.

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 · 5. Jan. 66 · Hermopolis (?)

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