Order for Payment
Order for delivery of wheat
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 42073
Order to Pammenes for delivery of wheat on the account of Apion TM 42073UnknownIst century A.D.
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A short ostracon order in which Apollonios instructs Pammenes to measure out a small quantity of wheat (1 3/4 choinix) to a man named Agath[…], son of Marres, charged to the account of Apion. It dates to the 1st century AD.
In English machine translation
Apollonios to Pammenes, greetings. Measure out to Agath[…], son of Marres, on the account of Apion, 1 1/2 1/4 choinix of wheat,
total 1 3/4 choinix.
The recipient's name is abbreviated as Agath(…) and cannot be expanded with certainty. A choinix was a small dry measure, roughly a day's grain ration.
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.1.31
Ἀπολλώνιος Παμμένῃ χαίρειν. μέτρησον Ἀγαθ Μαρρήους εἰς λόγον Ἀπίωνος πυροῦ χοίνικα μίαν ἥμισυ τέταρτον, γίνεται χοῖνιξ α 𐅵 δ.