Order for Payment
Order for delivery of wheat
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 42256
Order from Apollonios to Pammenes for delivery of wheat TM 42256UnknownIst century A.D.
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An ostracon order from Apollonios to Pammenes to measure out small amounts of wheat, a third and a sixth of a choinix, to two men named Tthoes, 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 Tthoes son of Psemn(…), on the account of Apion, one third of a choinix of wheat,
making 1/3 choinix of wheat.
To Tthoes son of Imouthes, one sixth,
making 1/6 choinix of wheat. Year 3, Hathyr 18.
The numerals γ and ϛ after 'choinix' are best read as fractions (1/3 and 1/6), matching the words 'third' and 'sixth' in the text. 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.1.48
Ἀπολλώνιος Παμμένῃ χαίρειν. μέτρησον Τθοῇ Ψεμν εἰς λόγον Ἀπίωνος πυροῦ χοίνικος τρίτον, γίνεται πυροῦ χοίνικος γ. Τθοῇ Ἰμούθου ἕκτον, γίνεται πυροῦ χοίνικος ϛ. ἔτους γ Ἁθὺρ ιη.