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An order from Tesenouphis, secretary of the farmers of Neilou Polis (Nilopolis), instructing the granary official Asklepiades to pay out wheat to several recipients, including sword-bearers of the strategos and the farmers' secretary. It is dated Year 10, Pauni 12; the end is lost.
A sitologos was an official in charge of a public granary; the abbreviation read as 'by the tenth-measure' (deka-) is uncertain and may refer to a particular measure. Several figures and recipients are lost or illegible.
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 Tesenuphis). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
Τεσενοῦφις γραμματεὺς γεωργῶν Νείλου Πόλεως Ἀσκληπιάδῃ σιτολώγῳ χαίρειν. μέτρησον μαχαιροφόρ- στρατηγοῦ πυροῦ δεκάτῳ τρίς, … φμη…ι… γραμματεῖ γεωργῶν δύο, […] θερῶτι […] γίνεται πυροῦ ἀρτάβας δεκάτῳ … ἔτους ι Παῦνι ιβ … πυροῦ δεκάτῳ … γίνεται πυροῦ ἀρτάβας δεκάτῳ μέτρῳ [… ? lines…
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