Order for Delivery
Order to deliver oil to a donkey driver
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 42330
Order to deliver oil to the donkey driver Olympiades TM 42330UnknownIst century A.D.
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A short ostracon order in which Pemes instructs Thaesis to give 1 1/4 measures of oil to the donkey driver Olympiades, dated year 6, Mecheir 26, with a further entry added below.
In English machine translation
Pemes likewise to Thaesis, greetings.
Let there be given to the donkey driver Olympiades one (and) one quarter (measure) of oil,
total 1 1/4 (measures) of oil. Year 6, Mecheir 26.
Another 1/4, total 1 1/4 (measures) of oil.
The opening 'likewise' (homoios) suggests this was one of a series of similar orders. The unit of oil is not stated, and the last line's figures (another 1/4, total 1 1/4) are hard to reconcile and may be a scribal slip.
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 Delivery). 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.1.55
Πεμῆς ὁμοίως Θαήσι χαίρειν. δοθήτω ὀνηλάτῃ Ὀλυμπιάδῃ ἐλαίου μίαν τέταρτον, γίνεται ἐλαίου α δ. ἔτους ϛ Μεχεὶρ κϛ. ἄλλο δ, γίνεται ἐλαίου α δ.