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Order for delivery of wine to the builder Dionysios TM 31761OxyrhynchosIII

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An order from Aurelia Diogenis instructing her agent Ammonios to give the builder Dionysios 6 jars of wine from whichever vat he chooses. It is dated Year 1, Choiak 21, was countersigned by Aurelius Hierakion, and comes from 3rd-century AD Oxyrhynchus.

In English machine translation

[recto] [… 8 lines lost …] [verso] From Aurelia Diogenis. Give to Dionysios, builder, from whatever vat he wishes, 6 jars of wine, total 6 jars of wine. Year 1, Choiak 21. To Ammonios, agent. I, Aurelius Hierakion, signed.

The word translated 'vat' (lenos) is a wine press or vat where wine was stored. The order is written on the back, and the 8 lines on the front are lost.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Order for Payment to a Builder). 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 · III · Oxyrhynchos

[r] [… 8 lines lost …] [v] παρὰ Αὐρηλίας Διογενίδος. δὸς Διονυσίῳ οἰκοδόμῳ ἀπʼ οἵας βούλεται ληνοῦ οἴνου κεράμια ἕξ, γίνεται οἴνου κεράμια ϛ ἔτους α Χοίακ κα. Ἀμμωνίῳ πραγματευτῇ. Αὐρήλιος Ἱερακίων ἐσημειωσάμην.