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Letter of Asklepiades to Theodoros on wheat sales at Memphis TM 3178Memphis

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A letter from Asklepiades, the official in charge of selling grain at Memphis, to Theodoros, reporting daily sales of white wheat brought from another nome on Pachon 6 to 10, each at 170 drachmas per artaba while the market price was 180. A heading notes it was received or forwarded to the scribe Herakleides on Pachon 18 of year 10.

In English machine translation

[recto] Year 10, Pachon 18. To Herakleides, scribe. Asklepiades, the official in charge of the sale of grain at Memphis, to Theodoros, greetings. On the 6th of Pachon there were sold at Memphis, from the white wheat brought from the […]polite nome, […] artabas at 170 (drachmas each), while the like was selling on the market at 180 drachmas; and on the 7th there were sold of the same wheat […] artabas at 170, while the like was selling at 180 drachmas; and on the 8th of the same 52 artabas at 170, while the like was selling at 180 drachmas; and on the 9th of the same […] artabas at 170, while the like was selling at 180 drachmas; and on the 10th of the same […]6 artabas at 170, while the like was selling at 180 drachmas. [verso] To Theodoros.

The wheat was sold below the prevailing market price, apparently a controlled sale of state grain. The name of the nome of origin is illegible.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Brief des Asklepiades an Theodoros). 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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p.koeln.5.217

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · Memphis

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