One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 34584

Order from Andronikos to the farmer Sarapion to deliver wheat to Sippas TM 34584Kysis (Oasis Magna)IV - Anfang V

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A short order on an ostracon in which Andronikos instructs the farmer Sarapion to deliver one artaba of wheat to a man named Sippas, measured by the landowner's measure. It is dated to a 10th indiction year and comes from Kysis in the Great Oasis, 4th to early 5th century AD.

In English machine translation

Andronikos to Sarapion, farmer, greetings. Give to Sippas 1 artaba of wheat by the landowner's measure, total 1 artaba. I pray for your health. 10th indiction. Signed by me, the petechon.

The petechon was an estate agent or official responsible for such disbursements; the expansion of the abbreviation is the editor's. The geouchikon metron was the measure used on a landowner's estate.

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)

Ἀνδρόνικος Σαραπίωνι γεωργῷ χαίρειν. δὸς Σιππᾷ σίτου γεουχικῷ μέτρῳ ἀρτάβην μίαν γίνεται ἀρτάβη α. ἐρρῶσθαί σε εὔχομαι ι ἰνδικτίωνος. σεσημείωμαι διʼ ἐμοῦ πετεχῶντος.