Memorandum for Transport
Memorandum for transport and delivery of several diversified commodities to a certain Sarapamon; the items which were delivered or made ready for transportation are noted by a dash drawn through the first word
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Memorandum from Maximinus to his father Sarapamon listing goods to bring TM 30183Unknown(Middle of the) IIIrd century - early IVth century A.D.
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A memorandum from Maximinus to his father Sarapamon listing goods to be brought to him, including plants, seeds, fruit stones, rugs, salt, glue, natron, chickpeas and reeds. It dates from the mid 3rd to early 4th century AD; the place is unknown.
In English machine translation
[recto]
Memorandum from me, Maximinus, to my father Sarapamon:
to bring the tow (?), 50 pounds,
to bring the two laurels and the two apricot trees,
to bring artichoke seeds,
to bring 10 small fans,
to bring stones of good winter peaches and of early peaches (?),
to bring 2 double-faced rugs of the first pattern,
to bring a pound of […],
to bring me sweet-apple plants,
to bring 4 artabas of salt,
⟦to bring thirty […] of red ochre⟧⟦of genuine red ochre⟧
to bring 2 pounds of glue,
to bring 1 artaba of natron,
to bring an artaba of chickpeas,
to bring another dry laurel,
⟦to bring two […]⟧,
⟦to bring onyx-coloured stone (?) and milk⟧;
⟦thirty minas⟧
⟦to bring two sieves to sift […] the seeds⟧
to bring 30 large reeds.
[verso]
Copy of the order (?) from Sarapamon.
The crossed-out entries probably mark items already delivered or made ready rather than errors. Several words (sippia, Armenia, dorakina, entagion) are uncertain in meaning; Armenia and dorakina are taken as apricots and early peaches.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Memorandum for Transport). 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.mich.14.680
[r] πρὸς ὑπόμνησιν ἐμοῦ Μαξιμίνου πρὸς τὸν πατέρα Σαραπάμωνα παρενεγκεῖν τὰ σίππια, λίτρας πεντήκοντα , παρενεγκεῖν τὰς δύο δάφνας καὶ τὰ δύο Ἀρμένια, παρενεγκεῖν σπέρματα κιναρῶν, παρενεγκεῖν δέκα ῥιπίδια παρενεγκεῖν ὀστᾶ Περσικῶν καλῶν χειμερινῶν καὶ δωρακίνων, παρενεγκεῖν ταπή…