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Order to issue wheat and wine to a phrontistes TM 45253Oxyrhynchos25. Mai 260

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An order from the estate official Nemesianus to Severus to issue 16 jars of wine and 12 artabas of wheat to the estate manager Silvanus for the month's works, with prices to be booked by the cashier Sarapiades. It was written at Oxyrhynchus in AD 260.

In English machine translation

Nemesianus to Severus, greetings. Give to Silvanus the phrontistes, on account of the works of the month Pachon, of wine of the produce of year 6, from the estate of Kollouthos, wine-press 2, 16 jars, and of wheat of the produce of year 5, 12 artabas, the prices of which Sarapiades the cashier has been instructed to enter, for the wine at 12 drachmas per jar, and for the wheat at 16 drachmas per artaba. Farewell. And give the twelve artabas of wheat and sixteen jars of wine, total 12 artabas, 16 jars. Year 7, Pachon 30.

A phrontistes was the manager of a unit of a large estate; the issues are charged against estate accounts at fixed prices.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Order to Issue Wheat and Wine). 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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p.oxy.49.3513

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text

Νεμεσιανὸς Σεουήρῳ χαίρειν. δὸς Σιλβανῷ φροντιστῇ εἰς λόγον ἔργων τοῦ Παχὼν μηνὸς οἴνου γενήματος ϛ ἔτους κτήματος Κολλούθου ληνοῦ β κεράμια ιϛ καὶ πυροῦ γενήματος ε ἔτους ἀρτάβας ιβ ὧν τὰς τιμὰς ἐπεστάλη Σαραπιάδης ὁ χειριστὴς λημματίσαι τοῦ μὲν οἴνου ὡς τοῦ κεραμίου α δραχμὰς ι…