Order for Payment
Order for delivery of wheat
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 42042
Order to the scribe Pammenes for delivery of wheat to Hermias TM 42042UnknownIst century A.D.
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A short order on an ostracon from Apollonios to the scribe Pammenes, instructing him to measure out a quarter choinix of wheat to Hermias, charged to the account of Apion. It is dated Year 3, Hathyr 18, in the 1st century AD.
In English machine translation
Apollonios to Pammenes, scribe, greetings.
Measure out to Hermias son of Pam[...] on the account of Apion one quarter of a choinix of wheat, total 1/4 choinix of wheat.
Year 3, Hathyr 18.
The name after Hermias is abbreviated as 'Pam', probably his father's name. A choinix was a small dry measure, roughly a day's grain ration, so the quantity here is very small.
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.1.28
Ἀπολλώνιος Παμμένῃ γραμματεῖ χαίρειν. μέτρησον Ἑρμείᾳ Παμ εἰς λόγον Ἀπίωνος πυροῦ χοίνικος τέταρτον, γίνεται πυροῦ χοίνικος δ. ἔτους γ Ἁθὺρ ιη.