One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 34495

Order to deliver wheat from rents to Heraklammon the overseer TM 34495Kysis (Oasis Magna)IV - Anfang V

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An ostracon carrying a payment order from Pierios to the farmer Ptolemaios the younger. It instructs him to give Heraklammon, an overseer, one artaba and 6 matia of wheat from the rents he holds. It was written at Kysis in the Great Oasis in the 4th or early 5th century AD.

In English machine translation

Pierios to Ptolemaios the younger, farmer, greeting. Give to Heraklammon, overseer (epimeletes), from the rents (in kind) held by you, of wheat, by the measure […] […] one artaba, 6 matia […] [… 1 line lost …]

The mation is a small dry measure, a fraction of an artaba. The name of the measuring standard used 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 Ordre de paiement). 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 · IV - Anfang V · Kysis (Oasis Magna)

Πιέριος Πτολεμαίῳ νεωτέρῳ γεωργῷ χαίρειν. δὸς Ἡρακλάμμωνι ἐπιμελητῇ ἀπὸ τῶν παρὰ σοὶ φόρων σίτου μέτρῳ … α…… ἀρτάβην μίαν μάτια ἕξ … [… 1 line lost …]