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Order to a sitologos to pay out wheat as rent for an allotment near Kerkeesis TM 41673Theadelphia (Arsinoites)

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An order from Ptolemaios, a scribe, to the granary official Ptolemaios of Autodike, instructing him to pay out 45 artabas of wheat to Poseidonios son of Didymos on behalf of Herakleides son of Zenobios, as rent for a land allotment farmed near Kerkeesis in the Polemon division of the Arsinoite nome. The docket on the back notes the grain was unclean.

In English machine translation

[recto] Ptolemaios, scribe, to Ptolemaios, sitologos of Autodike, greetings. Measure out to Poseidonios son of Didymos, on behalf of Herakleides son of Zenobios, the rent of the allotment of his which he has farmed near Kerkeesis in the division of Polemon: forty-five (artabas) of wheat by the dromos measure, total 45 (artabas) of wheat by the dromos measure. Year 1, Pauni 19. [verso] Of dirty grain.

"Dromos measure" refers to a standard grain measure, probably that of a temple courtyard (dromos); the unit (artabas) is implied. A sitologos was the official in charge of a public granary.

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.

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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text

[r] Πτολεμαῖος γραμματεὺς Πτολεμαίωι σιτολόγωι Αὐτοδίκης χαίρειν. μέτρησον Ποσειδωνίωι Διδύμου ὑπὲρ Ἡρακλείδου τοῦ Ζηνοβίου ἐκφόριον οὗ γεγεώργηκεν αὐτοῦ κλήρου περὶ Κερκεῆσιν τῆς Πολέμωνος πυροῦ δρόμῳ τεσσαράκοντα πέντε, γίνονται πυροῦ δρόμῳ με. ἔτους α, Παῦνι ιθ. [v] σίτου ῥυπα…