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Order to deliver 500 artabas of lentils to an assistant of the imperial household TM 38163unbekanntVI - VII

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A payment order from the hostel (xenon) of the Euboulos, issued by its reader and administrator Gregorios, instructing Senouthios, clerk of the village of Mesis, to provide 500 artabas of lentils to Georgios, an assistant of the imperial household. The lentils relate to a gold loan of 48 solidi advanced for grain purchase for the state grain shipment, plus 2 solidi interest, and are to be held until the end of Hathyr.

In English machine translation

[recto] † The pious hostel of the Euboulos (house?), through me, Gregorios, reader and administrator, to Senouthios, logographos of Mesis: provide to Georgios […], assistant of the divine imperial household, in respect of a gold loan in the month of Mesore of the 12th indiction of 48 solidi, which were also advanced for the purchase of grain on account of the auspicious embole, and for interest of 2 solidi, by the modius measure, five hundred artabas of lentils, which are also to be kept with the aforementioned until the end of Hathyr only of the same 2nd (?) indiction, on condition that, when he receives the gold, he return […] the order or the said 500 artabas of the same lentils. Phaophi 12, indiction. † I, Gregorios, with God, reader and administrator, […] of the lentils, 500 artabas only. [verso] † To Senouthes, logographos of Mesis: lentils, 500 artabas, by the modius measure.

The embole was the compulsory grain shipment to the capital; a logographos was a village or estate accounting clerk. The indiction numbers in the text (12th, then 'same 2nd') appear inconsistent.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Zahlungsanweisung). 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 · VI - VII

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