One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 70544

Order to supply barley to Anastasios TM 70544Hermonthis11. Apr. 623

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An order addressed to Theopemptos and Zacharias instructing them to supply 4 matia of barley to Anastasios, signed by Theon. It was written at Hermonthis on Pharmouthi 16 of an 11th indiction, dated to 11 April 623.

In English machine translation

To Theopemptos and Zacharias. Provide to the lord Anastasios 4 matia of barley, total 4 matia of barley only. Pharmouthi 16, indiction 11. Total 4 matia of barley. I, Theon, agree.

The mation is a small dry measure used in Byzantine Egypt. 'Stoichei' (agrees) is the standard closing signature formula of such orders.

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.

o.ashm.96

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text

Θεοπέμπτῳ καὶ Ζαχαρίᾳ. παράσχεσθε τῷ κυρίῳ Ἀναστασίῳ κριθῆς μάτια τέσσερα γίνονται κριθῆς μάτια δ μόνα. Φαρμοῦθι ιϛ ἰνδικτίονος ια. γίνονται κριθῆς μάτια δ. θέων στοιχεῖ.