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Order to issue wheat and wine to Kollouthos the potter TM 45259Oxyrhynchos25. Mai 260

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An order from Nemesianus to Severus to issue 18 artabas of wheat and 24 jars of wine to Kollouthos the potter as part of his payment for the month Pachon. The manager Sarapiades is to charge their value at fixed prices of 16 drachmas per artaba and 12 drachmas per jar. It was written at Oxyrhynchus in AD 260.

In English machine translation

Nemesianus to Severus, greetings. Give to Kollouthos the potter, on account of the payment for the present month Pachon, 18 artabas of wheat of the produce of year 5, and 24 jars of wine of the produce of year 6 from the estate of Kollouthos, wine-press 2; the total price of which Sarapiades the manager has been instructed to charge, for the wheat at 16 drachmas per artaba, and for the wine at 12 drachmas per jar. Farewell, and give the eighteen artabas of wheat and twenty-four jars of wine. Year 7, Pachon 30.

The goods are issued as payment in kind but debited at set cash values, recorded by the estate manager (cheiristes). The 'year 7' is a regnal year, here Valerian and Gallienus.

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.49.3519

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

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