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A short letter or report from the Ptolemaic Arsinoite nome (mid-3rd century BC) answering an inquiry about how much wheat the remaining pastophoroi (shrine-bearing priests) of the Sarapieion of Krokodilopolis had delivered. It lists amounts by village and gives a total.
Pastophoroi were a class of lower temple personnel, literally 'shrine-bearers'. The listed figures add to about 365 1/8, while the written total reads 3,065 1/8 or similar; the numeral in the total is uncertain.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Lettre relative aux Pastophores). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
[r] [… ? lines lost …] επ[…] παστοφόροις τοῦ τῆς Κροκοδείλων πόλεως Σαραπιείου, οἶσθα ὅτι εἶπας ἡμῖν σκέψασθαι πόσον τινὰ ἀνενηνόχασιν οἱ λοιποὶ παστοφόροι σῖτον· ἔστιν δὲ τὸ καθʼ ἕν · Βουκόλων κώμης πυροῦ ξα 𐅵 η, Φέτρης κδ, Ἀλεξάνδρου Νήσου κδ, Κερκεοσίρεως μζ, Πυρρείας οβ, Λαγί…
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