A report submitted to a decadarch by Dioskoros, scribe of the sitologos Dioskoros of the village of Autodike in the Arsinoite nome, on stocks of wheat in the village granaries. It accounts for amounts under the administration of Oursos and Heron, including grain sent to the harbour of Alsos and grain dispatched for the supply (euthenia). Dated 2 May 189.
In English machine translation
To […]enios also called […]mos, decadarch,
from Dioskoros, ⟨scribe⟩ of Dioskoros, sitologos of the village of
Autodike […] in the granaries
[…] of wheat of the harvest
[…] declared (?)
[…] through the last monthly report of the month Mecheir
of the present year: 2643 1/2 1/3 1/12 1/48 artabas of wheat,
of which, of the administration of Oursos,
1043 1/2 1/24 1/48 artabas of wheat,
from which were spent for the dispatch of the grain supply (euthenia)
543 artabas of wheat,
remainder 500 1/2 1/24 1/48 artabas of wheat;
of the administration of Heron
1600 1/3 1/24 artabas of wheat, which we also brought down to the harbour of Alsos of the metropolis, 1460 artabas of wheat,
and for the dispatch of the grain supply 140 1/3 1/24 artabas of wheat,
which I shall also deliver into the granary of the village
in full.
I, Dioskoros, scribe, have submitted this.
Year 29 of Marcus Aurelius
Commodus Antoninus
Caesar the lord,
Pachon 7.
Euthenia here refers to the public grain supply, probably for Alexandria; the sitologos was the official receiving grain in the village granary. The fractional figures do not all add up exactly as transmitted.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below. It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.