p.oxy.4.798
[… 8 lines lost …] ἀπὸ τῆς τιμῆς τοῦ ἀγοραστοῦ πρὸς ταῦτα ἀποδοῦναι, ὡς δʼ ἂν παραγένωνται οἱ σιτολόγοι ἐπὶ τὴν παράληψιν τῶν σιτικῶν ἀπομετρήσομεν ἅμα καὶ ταῦτα. ἔρρωσο. ἔτους κγ Φαῶφι.
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End of a letter concerning payment and measuring out of grain TM 5904Oxyrhynchos
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The end of a letter from Oxyrhynchus about grain dues. The writer promises that when the granary officials (sitologoi) arrive to collect the grain, the amounts in question will be measured out together with it. It is dated Year 23, Phaophi.
In English machine translation
[… 8 lines lost …]
… to pay for these from the price of the purchased grain, and as soon as the sitologoi arrive for the receipt of the grain we shall measure out these too at the same time.
Farewell. Year 23, Phaophi.
The sitologoi were the officials in charge of public granaries who received grain payments. The phrase rendered 'the price of the purchased grain' (tes times tou agorastou) is obscure without the lost opening lines.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as keiner). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.