Order for Payment
Order for delivery of wheat
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 42267
Order from Apollonios to Pammenes to deliver wheat to Psenamounis TM 42267UnknownIst century A.D.
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A short ostracon order in which Apollonios instructs Pammenes to measure out one choinix of wheat to Psenamounis son of Amphion. It dates to the 1st century AD; its provenance is unknown.
In English machine translation
Apollonios to Pammenes, greetings.
Measure out to Psenamounis son of Amphion, on account, 1 choinix of wheat, total 1 choinix of wheat.
A choinix was a small dry measure, roughly a day's ration of grain, so the order concerns a very small quantity.
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.1.49
Ἀπολλώνιος Παμμένῃ χαίρειν. μέτρησον Ψεναμούνει Ἀμφίωνος εἰς λόγον πυροῦ χοίνικα μίαν, γίνεται πυροῦ χοῖνιξ α.