Order for Payment
Order for delivery of wheat
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 42063
Order to deliver a small quantity of wheat to Pammenes TM 42063UnknownIst century A.D.
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A short order on a pottery sherd in which Apollonios instructs Pammenes, a secretary, to measure out one third of a choinix of wheat to Pammenes. It is dated Year 3, Hathyr 18, in the 1st century AD.
In English machine translation
Apollonios to Pammenes, secretary, greetings. Measure out to Pammenes one third of a choinix of wheat, total 1/3 choinix of wheat.
Year 3, Hathyr 18.
The addressee and the recipient share the name Pammenes, perhaps the same man. A choinix was a small dry measure, roughly a day's ration of grain.
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.1.30
Ἀπολλώνιος Παμμένῃ γραμματεῖ χαίρειν. μέτρησον Παμμένῃ πυροῦ χοίνικος τρίτον, γίνεται πυροῦ χοίνικος γ. ἔτους γ Ἁθὺρ ιη.