Order for Payment
Order for delivery of wheat
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 42109
Order to deliver wheat to Hermas on the account of Apion TM 42109UnknownIst century A.D.
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A short order on an ostracon from Apollonios to Pammenes, instructing him to measure out 3/4 of a choinix of wheat to Hermas son of Marres, 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 Hermas son of Marres, on the account of Apion, one half and one quarter choinix of wheat,
total 1/2 1/4 choinix of wheat. Year 3, Hathyr 18.
The choinix was a small dry measure, roughly a day's grain ration; the quantity here is unusually small. The regnal year 3 cannot be tied to a specific emperor from the text.
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.1.35
Ἀπολλώνιος Παμμένῃ χαίρειν. μέτρησον Ἑρμᾷ Μαρρήους εἰς λόγον Ἀπίωνος πυροῦ χοίνικος ἥμισυ τέταρτον, γίνεται πυροῦ χοίνικος 𐅵 δ. ἔτους γ Ἁθὺρ ιη.