Order for Payment
Order for delivery of wheat
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 42212
Order from Apollonios to Pammenes to deliver wheat to Nonnos TM 42212UnknownIst century A.D.
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An ostracon bearing a short order from Apollonios to Pammenes instructing him to measure out three and a half choinikes of wheat to Nonnos on 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 Nonnos […] on account of Apion 3 1/2 choinikes of wheat, total 3 1/2 choinikes of wheat.
Year 3, Hathyr 18.
The choinix was a small dry measure, roughly a day's grain ration. The regnal year is not tied to a named emperor, so the exact year 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.1.44
Ἀπολλώνιος Παμμένῃ χαίρειν. μέτρησον Νόννῳ […]εἰς λόγον Ἀπίωνος πυροῦ χοίνικας τρεῖς ἥμισυ, γίνονται πυροῦ χοίνικες γ 𐅵. ἔτους γ Ἁθὺρ ιη.