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Report of sitologoi to the strategos Aristeides on wheat received TM 26562Sethroites, ÄgyptenII

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Opening of a report from Syrion and his fellow sitologoi (granary officials) of a village in the Sethroite nome to the strategos Aristeides, summarizing wheat measured into their granary from the harvest. The rest of the document is lost. It dates to the 2nd century AD.

In English machine translation

To Aristeides also called Pt[…], strategos of the Se[throite nome], from Syrion son of […]nos and his associates, appointed (?) to the office of sitologoi of Tanou[…]: summary of wheat measured to us from the produce of [the …] […]

Sitologoi were village officials responsible for receiving and storing grain paid as tax; the Greek 'synairema' denotes a summary statement of receipts. The village name beginning Tanou[…] is incomplete.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Bericht von Sitologen). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.

p.amst.1.36

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · II · Sethroites, Ägypten

Ἀριστείδῃ τῷ καὶ Πτ[…] στρατηγῶι Σεθρωίτου παρὰ Συρίωνος …[…] νου καὶ μετόχων ἐν κλήρῳ σιτολογίας Τανου[…] συναίρεμα πυροῦ τοῦ μεμετρημένου ἡμῖν ἀπὸ γενήματος τοῦ [… ? lines lost …]