Order for Payment
Order for delivery of wheat
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 42142
Order to Pammenes to deliver wheat to Menches TM 42142UnknownIst century A.D.
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A short order on an ostracon in which Apollonios instructs Pammenes to measure out half a choinix of wheat to Menches son of Psem, 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 Menches son of Psem, on the account of Apion, one half choinix of wheat,
making 1/2 choinix of wheat. Year 3, Hathyr 18.
A choinix was a small dry measure, roughly a day's grain ration; half a choinix is a very small amount. The father's name Psem is abbreviated and may be incomplete.
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.1.38
Ἀπολλώνιος Παμμένῃ χαίρειν. μέτρησον Μεγχῇ Ψεμ εἰς λόγον Ἀπίωνος πυροῦ χοίνικος ἥμισυ, γίνεται πυροῦ χοίνικος 𐅵. ἔτους γ Ἁθὺρ ιη.