Order for delivery in kind
Order to deliver some wheat to a Thoteus
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 25143
Order to deliver wheat to the granary guard Thoteus TM 25143Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of EgyptIst century A.D.
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A short order on an ostracon from Kastor, village scribe of Karanis, to Marres, instructing him to measure out 9 artabas of wheat to Thoteus, a granary official. It is dated Year 2, Epeiph 15, in the 1st century AD.
In English machine translation
Kastor, scribe of Karanis, to Marres, likewise (scribe), greetings. Measure out to Thoteus, granary guard, 9 artabas of wheat, total 9 artabas of wheat.
Year 2, Epeiph 15.
The abbreviation (ὁμοίως), 'likewise', implies Marres held the same title as Kastor. θη(σαυροφύλακι) is an expanded abbreviation for a granary guard or keeper.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Order). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
o.mich.3.1004
Κάστωρ γραμματεὺς Καρανίδος Μαρρῆτι ὁμοίως χαίρειν. μέτρησον Θοτεῖ θησαυροφύλακι πυροῦ ἀρτάβας ἐννέα, γίνονται πυροῦ ἀρτάβαι θ. ἔτους β Ἐπὶφ ιε.