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Order to issue wheat and wine to an estate manager at Souis TM 45256Oxyrhynchos25. Mai 260

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An order from Nemesianus to Severus to issue 4 artabas of wheat and 46 jars of wine to Ammonios, manager of part of an estate at Souis, for paying vine-dressers and water-carriers and for other expenses. The cashier Sarapiades is to book their value at set prices. Written at Oxyrhynchus on 25 May 260.

In English machine translation

Nemesianus to Severus, greetings. Give to Ammonios, manager of some parts of Souis, for the payments of the vine-dressers and the water-carriers for the month of Pachon and for the other expenses of the management, 4 artabas of wheat of the produce of year 4, and of wine of the produce of year 6 from the western estate, vat 3, from what was left over […], 46 jars, the prices of which Sarapiades the cashier has been instructed to enter as receipts: for the wheat, at the rate of 16 drachmas per 1 artaba, Pachon 30 and for the wine, at the rate of 12 drachmas per 1 jar. Farewell, and give the four artabas of wheat and forty-six jars of wine, total: wheat 46 artabas, 4 jars. Year 7, Pachon 30.

The final total as written gives 46 artabas of wheat and 4 jars, reversing the figures stated in the body (4 artabas and 46 jars), apparently a scribal slip. Part of line 5 describing the source of the wine is illegible.

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.49.3516

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

Νεμεσιανὸς Σεουήρῳ χαίρειν. δὸς Ἀμμωνίῳ φροντιστῇ ἐνίων μερῶν Σούεως εἰς τὰς δόσεις τῶν ἀμπελουργῶν καὶ τῶν ὑδροπαρόχων τοῦ Παχὼν μηνὸς καὶ εἰς τὰ ἄλλα τῆς φροντίδος ἀναλώματα πυροῦ γενήματος δ ἔτους ἀρτάβας δ καὶ οἴνου γενήματος ϛ ἔτους κτήματος λιβικοῦ ληνοῦ γ ἀπὸ τῶν ὑπολειφθέ…