Order for Payment
Order for delivery of wheat
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 42244
Order from Apollonios to Pammenes to deliver wheat to Stotoetis TM 42244UnknownIst century A.D.
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A short ostracon order in which Apollonios instructs Pammenes to measure out a small quantity of wheat (7/12 of a choinix) to Stotoetis, 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 Stotoetis son of Anton(?), on the account of Apion, one half and one twelfth of a choinix of wheat,
making 1/2 1/12 choinix of wheat.
Year 3, Hathyr 18.
A choinix was a small dry measure, roughly a daily grain ration. The father's name Anton is an abbreviation and its full form is uncertain.
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.1.47
Ἀπολλώνιος Παμμένῃ χαίρειν. μέτρησον Στοθοήτει Ἀντων εἰς λόγον Ἀπίωνος πυροῦ χοίνικος ἥμισυ δωδέκατον, γίνεται πυροῦ χοίνικος 𐅵 ιβ. ἔτους γ Ἁθὺρ ιη.