Order for Payment
Order for delivery of wheat
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 42051
Order to deliver wheat to Inaros TM 42051UnknownIst century A.D.
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A short order on an ostracon from Apollonios to the secretary Pammenes, instructing him to measure out a quarter choinix of wheat to Inaros. It is dated Year 3, Hathyr 18, in the 1st century AD.
In English machine translation
Apollonios to Pammenes, secretary, greetings. Measure out to Inaros son of Haren (?) one quarter choinix of wheat,
total 1/4 choinix of wheat. Year 3, Hathyr 18.
The choinix was a small dry measure, roughly a daily ration of grain. The reading of the second name, Haren, as a patronymic 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.1.29
Ἀπολλώνιος Παμμένῃ γραμματεῖ χαίρειν. μέτρησον Ἰναρῶτι Ἁρεν πυροῦ χοίνικος τέταρτον, γίνεται πυροῦ χοίνικος δ. ἔτους γ Ἁθὺρ ιη.