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Order to a sitologos to pay out wheat at Neilopolis TM 643040Nilopolis

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An order from Akousilaos and Philoxenos, scribes of the animal-keepers of Neilopolis, instructing the sitologos (granary official) Asklepiades to pay out several amounts of wheat to various recipients, measured by the bronze measure and the dromos measure. It is dated Year 10, Pauni 12, and Philoxenos adds a confirming subscription.

In English machine translation

Akousilaos and Philoxenos, scribes of the animal-keepers of Neilopolis, to Asklepiades, sitologos, greetings. Measure out to the phylakites (?) of the episposdasmos (?) jointly (?), by the bronze measure, 6 artabas, total by bronze measure 6 artabas; and to […] on the spot, by the bronze measure, 4 1/2 1/3 artabas, total of wheat by bronze measure 4 1/2 1/3, so that it makes by bronze measure 10 1/2 1/3 artabas; and to […] and Psenotis, of wheat, by the dromos measure, 3 1/2 1/3 artabas, total by dromos measure 3 1/2 1/3. Year 10, Pauni 12. (2nd hand) Philoxenos: measure out the aforementioned […] by the dromos measure 3 […]

The 'bronze measure' and 'dromos measure' are different standard grain measures. The terms in line 5 (phylakites, epispoudasmos) are abbreviated and their sense here is uncertain.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Anweisung des Akusilaos und des Philoxenos). 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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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text

Ἀκουσίλαος καὶ Φιλόξενος γραµµατεῖς κτηνοτρόφων Νείλου Πόλεως Ἀσκληπιάδῃ σιτολόγῳ χαίρειν. µέτρησον φυλακίτ- ἐπισπουδασµοῦ κοινω χαλκῷ µέτρῳ ἀρτάβας ἕξ γίνεται χαλκῶι µέτρωι ἀρτάβας ϛ καὶ …νµηντη ἐπὶ τόπῳ χαλκῷ µέτρῳ ἀρτάβας τέσσαρας ἥµισυ γ γίνεται πυροῦ χαλκῶι µέτρῳ δ ἥµισυ γ ὥ…