Order for Payment
Order for delivery of wheat
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 42119
Order from Apollonios to Pammenes to deliver wheat to Hermes TM 42119UnknownIst century A.D.
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A short order on an ostracon in which Apollonios instructs Pammenes to measure out 3 choinikes of wheat to Hermes, 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 Hermes son of Harpo(…), to the account of Apion, 3 choinikes of wheat,
total 3 choinikes of wheat. Year 3, Hathyr 18.
The choinix was a small dry measure, a fraction of an artaba. The father's name of Hermes, Harpo(…), is abbreviated and its full form is uncertain.
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.1.36
Ἀπολλώνιος Παμμένῃ χαίρειν. μέτρησον Ἑρμῇ Ἁρπο εἰς λόγον Ἀπίωνος πυροῦ χοίνικας τρεῖς, γίνονται πυροῦ χοίνικες γ. ἔτους γ Ἁθὺρ ιη.