Order for Payment
Order for delivery of wheat
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 42279
Order from Apollonios to Pammenes for delivery of wheat to Psenobastis TM 42279UnknownIst century A.D.
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A short order on an ostracon from Apollonios to Pammenes, telling him to measure out one third of a choinix of wheat to Psenobastis son of Harem. It is dated Year 3, Hathyr 18, in the 1st century AD.
In English machine translation
Apollonios to Pammenes, greetings. Measure out to Psenobastis son of Harem one third of a choinix of wheat, total 1/3 choinix of wheat.
Year 3, Hathyr 18.
The total is written with the numeral gamma, which here stands for the fraction 1/3 named in words just before it. A choinix is a small dry measure, roughly a day's 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.
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Ἀπολλώνιος Παμμένῃ χαίρειν. μέτρησον Ψενοβάστει Ἁρεμ πυροῦ χοίνικος τρίτον, γίνεται πυροῦ χοίνικος γ. ἔτους γ Ἁθὺρ ιη.