Order for Payment
Order for delivery of wheat
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 42087
Order from Apollonios to Pammenes for delivery of wheat TM 42087UnknownIst century A.D.
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An ostracon bearing an order from Apollonios to Pammenes to issue small amounts of wheat, measured in choinikes, to three men: Ammonios son of Apollonios (charged to Apion's account), Panos and Pechysis. It is dated Year 3, Hathyr 18, in the 1st century AD.
In English machine translation
Apollonios to Pammenes, greetings.
Measure out to Ammonios son of Apollonios, to the account of Apion, 1 choinix of wheat, total one choinix;
to Panos son of Apas 2, total two;
to Pechysis son of Psenos 5, total five.
Year 3, Hathyr 18.
The choinix was a small dry measure, roughly a day's grain ration. The name 'Apas' is read as the father's name of Panos.
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.1.33
Ἀπολλώνιος Παμμένῃ χαίρειν. μέτρησον Ἀμμωνίῳ Ἀπολλωνίου εἰς λόγον Ἀπίωνος πυροῦ χοίνικα α, γίνεται χοίνικα μία, Πανῶτι Ἀπα β, γίνονται δύο. Πεχύσι Ψενῶ ε, γίνονται πέντε. ἔτους γ Ἁθὺρ ιη.