Order for Payment
Order to deliver grain to a neophylax(?)
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 41920
Order to deliver wheat to the nomophylax Neotas TM 41920probably Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of EgyptIIIrd century A.D.
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A short order on an ostracon from Heras son of Heron and Palas, grain receivers, instructing that 3 1/2 artabas of wheat be given to Neotas, a nomophylax. It dates to the 3rd century AD and probably comes from Karanis in the Fayum.
In English machine translation
Heras son of Heron and Palas, receivers, greetings.
Give to Neotas, nomophylax, 3 1/2 artabas of wheat.
A nomophylax was a local official, literally a guardian of the laws, here likely a village police or administrative officer. The opening is somewhat garbled; the greeting is addressed in the text oddly, and the reading of the title as nomophylax rather than neophylax is uncertain.
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.
o.mich.1.161
Ἡρᾶς Ἥρωνος Παλᾶτος ἀποδεκτ χαίρειν· Δοθῆς Νεωτᾶ νομοφύλαξ πυροῦ ἀρτάβαι γ 𐅵.