Order for Payment
Order for delivery of wheat
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 42179
Order from Apollonios to Pammenes to deliver wheat TM 42179UnknownIst century A.D.
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A short order on an ostracon in which Apollonios instructs Pammenes to measure out one and a half choinikes of wheat to a man named Mesophen, charged to the account of Apion. It dates to the 1st century AD.
In English machine translation
Apollonios to Pammenes, greetings. Measure out to Mesophen (?) on the account of Apion 1 1/2 choinikes of wheat, total 1 1/2 choinikes of wheat.
The recipient's name, written across a line break as Meso-phen, is uncertain. A choinix was a small dry measure, roughly a day's grain ration.
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.1.41
Ἀπολλώνιος Παμμένῃ χαίρειν. μέτρησον Μεσο Φεν εἰς λόγον Ἀπίωνος πυροῦ χοίνικα μίαν ἥμισυ, γίνεται πυροῦ χοῖνιξ α 𐅵.