Order for Payment
Order for delivery of wheat
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 42222
Order from Apollonios to Pammenes for delivery of wheat TM 42222UnknownIst century A.D.
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A short order in which Apollonios instructs Pammenes to measure out half a choinix of wheat to a man named Penes, 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 Penes(?) son of Hipp(…), on the account of Apion, one half choinix of wheat,
total 1/2 choinix of wheat. Year 3, Hathyr 18.
The payee's name and patronymic are abbreviated (Πενη Ἱππ) and their full forms are uncertain. A choinix is a small dry measure, roughly a daily ration of grain.
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.1.45
Ἀπολλώνιος Παμμένῃ χαίρειν. μέτρησον Πενη Ἱππ εἰς λόγον Ἀπίωνος πυροῦ χοίνικος ἥμισυ, γίνεται πυροῦ χοίνικος 𐅵. ἔτους γ Ἁθὺρ ιη.