Order for Payment
Order for delivery of wheat
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 42081
Order from Apollonios to Pammenes for delivery of wheat TM 42081UnknownIst century A.D.
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A short order on a pottery sherd from Apollonios to Pammenes, telling him to measure out small quantities of wheat to Akos son of Steës and to Marres son of Heron. It is dated to year 3, in the month Hathyr, and belongs to the 1st century AD.
In English machine translation
Apollonios to Pammenes, greetings.
Measure out to Akos son of Steës on account 3 choinikes of wheat,
to Marres son of Heron 1/2, total 1/2 (?). Year 3, Hathyr [18].
The choinix was a small dry measure, about a day's ration of grain. The fractional figures in the last line are hard to reconcile with the 3 choinikes given earlier, and the day number is restored.
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.1.32
Ἀπολλώνιος Παμμένῃ χαίρειν. μέτρησον Ἀκο Στεη εἰς λόγον πυροῦ χοίνικας τρεῖς , Μαρρῇ Ἥρωνος 𐅵, γίνεται 𐅵. ἔτους γ Ἁθὺρ ιη.