One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 34587

Order from Psennesis to deliver landowner's wheat from rents TM 34587Kysis (Oasis Magna)IV - Anfang V

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An order on an ostracon from Psennesis instructing the recipient to pay out 11 artabas and 3 matia of wheat belonging to the landowner from the rents in his keeping. It is dated to a 12th indiction and comes from Kysis in the Great Oasis, 4th to early 5th century AD.

In English machine translation

Psennesis E[…] to […] [… 2 lines lost …] […] greetings. Give A[…] 11 artabas 3 matia of landowner's wheat from the rents you hold. 12th indiction. I pray for your health.

"Geouchika" refers to grain belonging to the landowner (geouchos). The mation is a small dry measure, a fraction of an artaba.

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)

Ψεννῆσις Ε……ρ…α [… 2 lines lost …] […] χαίρειν. δὸς Ἀ…ι…[…] σίτου γεουχικὰς ἀρτάβας ια μάτια γ ἀπὸ τῶν παρὰ σοὶ φόρων. ιβ ἰνδικτίωνος. ἐρρῶσθαί σε εὔχομαι.