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Two payment orders from Petalos, secretary of the animal-breeders of Neilou Polis (Nilopolis), to the granary official Asklepiades, instructing him to issue 2 artabas of wheat each to the sword-bearing guards of the strategos and to a group called troglodytes. Both are dated Year 9, Epeiph 14.
Machairophoroi were armed guards attached to officials; 'troglodytes' here probably denotes a group of guards or workers of that ethnic designation. A sitologos was the official in charge of a public granary.
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 Petalos). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
Πέταλος γραµµατεύς κτηνοτρόφων Νείλου Πόλεως Ἀσκληπιάδῃ σιτολόγῳ χαίρειν. µέτρησον µαχαιροφόροις στρατηγοῦ πυροῦ ἀρτάβας δύο µέτρῳ ὑµετέρῳ γίνεται ὑµετέρῳ β. ἔτους θ Ἐπείφ ιδ µέτρησον τρωγοδύταις πυροῦ ἀρτάβας δύο µέτρῳ ὑµετέρῳ γίνεται ὑµετέρῳ β. ἔτους θ Ἐπεὶφ ιδ
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