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A short order instructing Silvanus, a receiver of money, to pay out 15 artabas of wheat to Asklepiades, an assistant, on account of an attendant, from the crops of the 14th and 15th indiction years. It is dated Mesore 20 of a 15th indiction, in the 5th or 6th century AD.
The sender's name is lost at the start. Oddly, a 'receiver of money' (paralemptes argyriou) is here ordered to deliver wheat; boethos (assistant) and hyperetes (attendant) are minor official titles.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Order for payment). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
† […]ς Σιλβανῷ παραλημπτῇ ἀργυρίου· μέτρησον Ἀσκληπιάδῃ βοηθῷ εἰς λόγον τοῦ ὑπηρέτου σίτου ἀρτάβας δεκαπέντε, σίτου ἀρτάβαι ιε μόναι ἀπὸ καρπῶν τεσσαρεσκαιδεκάτης καὶ πεντεκαιδεκάτης ἰνδικτίονος Μεσορὴ κ τῆς αὐτῆς ιε ἰνδικτίονος. ἐρρῶσθαί σε εὔχομαι
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