Order for Payment
Order for delivery of wheat
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 42190
Order to Pammenes for delivery of wheat to Mettios TM 42190UnknownIst 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 Mettios son of Petesouchos, 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 Mettios son of Petesouchos, on the account of Apion, one half (choinix?) of wheat, total: wheat, 1/2 choinix. Year 3, Hathyr 18.
The choinix was a small dry measure, roughly a day's grain ration; the unit is given in the total line only. The provenance is unknown.
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.1.42
Ἀπολλώνιος Παμμένῃ χαίρειν. μέτρησον Μεττίῳ Πετεσούχου εἰς λόγον Ἀπίωνος πυροῦ ἥμισυ, γίνεται πυροῦ χοίνικος 𐅵. ἔτους γ Ἁθὺρ ιη.