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A letter from Paesis to Archelaos, a subordinate assistant, at Oxyrhynchus, instructing him to load a shipmaster's cargo of grain carefully, send samples for weighing with a donkey borrowed from the police chiefs, and have the granary officials ready so that nothing delays the work. It dates to the 2nd or 3rd century AD.
Sitologoi were the officials in charge of public granaries; the deigmatoartai carried grain samples for official inspection. The cargo may have been destined for Italy or Alexandria as part of the state grain shipment.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Lading and Inspection of Corn). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
Letter to Archelaus, a minor official, from a superior, giving him directions concerning the lading of a cargo of wheat, and its official inspection. In this case too, perhaps, as in P.Oxy. I 62, the corn was destined for Italy.
[r] Παήσιος Ἀρχελάωι τῶι φιλτάτωι χαίρειν. τοῦ ἀναδιδόντος σοι τὸ ἐπιστόλιόν μου ναυκλήρου Πανεμουῶτος προνόησον σὺν πάσῃ σπουδῇ ἐνβαλέσθαι αὐτοῦ τὸν γόμον ὡς ἔθος ὃν ἔχεις ἐν χερσὶ καὶ λεκτῷ ἐνβαλέσθαι, καὶ τοὺς δειγματοάρτας καθʼ αὑτὸν ἀναπέμψαι πρὸς ζυγοστασίαν λαβόντα παρὰ τῶ…
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