A payment order from Stephanos, 'servant of the Theotokos', to Ioannes, a collector at Ptolemais, instructing him to issue 2 artabas of wheat and 1 artaba of barley as a capitum allowance to the doorkeepers Apollonios and Enoch. It dates to the early 7th century AD and comes from the Memphite region.
In English machine translation
[recto]
☧ Stephanos, servant of the Theotokos, to Ioannes, collector of Ptolemais.
Provide, for the capitum (fodder allowance), to Apollonios and Enoch, doorkeepers, there having been given to them […] 3 (?), by the Alexandrian measure (kankellon), 2 artabas of wheat only, 1 artaba of barley only.
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[verso]
[…] 2 artabas of wheat […]
Capitum was a fodder or provision allowance in kind; the 'Alexandrian kankellon' refers to a standard measure for grain. 'Servant of the Theotokos' (Mother of God) is a pious title, probably of an administrator of a church or estate.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Zahlungsauftrag). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.