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Order to issue wine to the overseer Apion for estate wages TM 45255Oxyrhynchos25. Mai 260

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An order from Nemesianus to Severus to issue wine to Apion, overseer of the northern district of an estate, to cover payments to vine-dressers and water-carriers and other expenses for the month of Pachon. The wine is valued in drachmas per jar and the cashier Sarapiades is to record the prices. Written at Oxyrhynchus in AD 260.

In English machine translation

Nemesianus to Severus, greetings. Give to Apion, overseer (pronoetes) of the northern parts, for the payments of the vine-dressers for the month of Pachon and for the payments of the water-carriers of the 7th year and for the other expenses of the estate-management for the month of Pachon, of wine of the produce of the 6th year from the estate of Kollouthos, vat 2, 97 keramia; of the produce of the 5th year from the western estate, vat 4, 5 double-jars, 8 single-jars; the prices of which Sarapiades the cashier has been instructed to enter, for the wine from the produce of the 6th year at 12 drachmas per keramion, and for that from the produce of the 5th year, for the Pachon 30 keramion 16 drachmas (?) each, and for the double-jars at 24 drachmas each. Farewell, and give the 105 keramia and 5 double-jars of wine, total 105 keramia, 5 double-jars. Year 7, Pachon 30.

Belongs to the Heroninos-type estate management practice where wine was issued in lieu of cash wages; the numeral read 'αϛ' for the price of the 5th-year wine is odd and is rendered as 16 drachmas with doubt. The catalogue title mentions wheat, but only wine appears in the text.

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.49.3515

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

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