One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 45258

Order to issue wheat and wine as monthly wages to estate workers TM 45258Oxyrhynchos25. Mai 260

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An order from Nemesianus to Severus to issue monthly wage payments in wheat and wine to donkey-drivers, an ox-driver and village guards working on an estate. The wine comes from the Magdolos estate, left over by merchants, and the manager Sarapiades is to book its value at fixed prices. Written at Oxyrhynchus in AD 260.

In English machine translation

Nemesianus to Severus, greetings. Give to the monthly workers and others listed below, on account of wages for the present month Pachon: to Pamounis, donkey-driver, 1 artaba of wheat, 2 keramia of wine; to Agathos, another (donkey-driver), likewise 1 artaba of wheat, 2 keramia of wine; to Panechotes 1 artaba of wheat, 2 keramia of wine; to Petronius, ox-driver, 1 artaba of wheat, 2 keramia of wine; to Phanomais, village guard, 2 artabas of wheat; to Onnophris, another (guard), 2 artabas of wheat; to Dionysios likewise 2 artabas of wheat. Total: wheat of the produce of year 5, 10 artabas; wine of the produce of year 6 from the estate of Magdolos, from what was left over by the merchants, 8 keramia, the total price of which Sarapiades the manager has been instructed to enter in the accounts, the wheat at 16 drachmas per artaba and the wine at 12 drachmas per keramion. Farewell, and give the ten ⟦two⟧ artabas of wheat and eight keramia of wine, total 10 artabas of wheat, 8 keramia. Year 7, Pachon 30.

This is a private estate payment order rather than a state document; the keramion is a wine jar measure. The scribe deleted 'two' after 'ten', correcting the wheat total.

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.

p.oxy.49.3518

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

Νεμεσιανὸς Σεουήρῳ χαίρειν. δὸς τοῖς ὑπογεγραμμένοις καταμηνίοις καὶ ἄλλοις εἰς λόγον ὀψωνίων τοῦ ὄντος μηνὸς Παχὼν Παμοῦνι ὀνηλάτῃ πυροῦ ἀρτάβην α, οἴνου κεράμια β· Ἀγάθῳ ἑτέρῳ ὁμοίως πυροῦ ἀρτάβην α, οἴνου κεράμια β· Πανεχώτῃ πυροῦ ἀρτάβην α, οἴνου κεράμια β· Πετρωνίῳ ζευγηλάτῃ…