Order for Payment
Order for delivery of wheat
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 42098
Order from Apollonios to Pammenes for delivery of wheat TM 42098UnknownIst century A.D.
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A short order on an ostracon from Apollonios to Pammenes instructing him to measure out 1 1/2 choinikes of wheat to a man named Har… son of Pete…, charged to the account of Apion. It is dated Year 3, Hathyr 18, in the 1st century AD.
In English machine translation
Apollonios to Pammenes, greetings.
Measure out to Har… son of Pete… on the account of Apion 1 1/2 choinikes of wheat, total 1 1/2 choinikes of wheat.
Year 3, Hathyr 18.
The choinix was a small dry measure, a fraction of an artaba. The payee's name and patronymic are only partly legible.
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.1.34
ἈπολλώνιοςΠαμμένῃ χαίρειν. μέτρησον Ἁρ… Πετε… εἰς λόγονἈπίωνος πυροῦ χοίνικα μίαν ἥμισυ, γίνεται πυροῦ χοῖνιξ α 𐅵. ἔτους γ Ἁθὺρ ιη.