One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 704868

Order to Peteuris to load wheat onto the boat of Euphron TM 704868unbekanntII v.Chr.

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Fragmentary order from a man whose name ends in -des to Peteuris instructing him to load clean, sieved wheat onto a boat belonging to Euphron, on which Apollonios serves, and to send it downriver. It dates to the 2nd century BC.

In English machine translation

[recto] […]des to Peteuris, […] greeting. Load wheat of the […], clean, sieved, […] artabas […] into the […] of Euphron son of […] of a capacity of 1 [thousand artabas?], on which Apollonios [is …] […] send (it) down […] [… lines lost …] [verso] [… lines lost …] […] […] shipowner (?) […] […] […]phron […] […] to Peteuris […]

Loading orders of this kind belong to the Ptolemaic grain transport system. The ship's capacity figure (A, probably 1,000 artabas) and the role of Apollonios are uncertain because of gaps.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Ladeanweisung für Getreide). 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

[r] […]δης Πετεύρει […] χαίρειν. ἐμβαλοῦ πυροῦ τοῦ […] καθαροῦ κεκοσκινευμένου ἀρτάβας […] εἰς […]ν Εὔφρονος τοῦ […] ἀγωγῆς Α ἐφ’ οὗ Ἀπολλώνιος […]… καταπόστειλον [… ? lines lost …] [v] [… ? lines lost …] […] […] ναυκλ ε…δ […]…τρι […]φρονον […] Πετεύρει […]