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p.oxy.1.55tripl 7. Apr. 283Oxyrhynchos

Embellishment of a New Street via HGV-meta

Request for payment for work on a colonnaded street at Oxyrhynchus. Two brothers, Aurelius Menestheus and Nemesianus, workmen of the Kasiotic craft at Oxyrhynchus, ask the prytanis Aurelius Apollonios alias Dionysios to order the civic treasurer to pay them 4 talents 4,000 drachmas for work on a new colonnaded street running south from the gymnasium gate. The request, dated 7 April 283, ends with their acknowledgements of receipt. machine translation

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Inscription #1 · Greek · Greek

Transcription

Αὐρηλίῳ Ἀπολλωνίῳ τῷ καὶ Διονυσίῳ γενομένῳ ὑπομνηματογράφῳ καὶ ὡς χρηματίζει γυμνασιαρχήσαντι βουλευτῇ ἐνάρχῳ πρυτάνει τῆς λαμπρᾶς καὶ λαμπροτάτηςὈξυρυγχιτῶν πόλεως διέποντι καὶ τὰ πολιτικά, παρὰ Αὐρηλίων Μενεσθέως καὶ Νεμεσιανοῦ ἀμφοτέρων Διονυσίου ἀπὸ τῆς αὐτῆς λαμπρᾶς Ὀξυρυγχιτῶν πόλεως Κασιωτῶν. αἰτούμεθα ἐπισταλῆναι ἐξοδιασθῆναι ἡμῖν ἀπὸ τοῦ τῆς πόλεως λόγου, ὑπὲρ μισθῶν ὧν πεποιήμεθα Κασιωτικῶν ἔργων τῆς κατασκευασθείσης ὑπὸ σοῦ πλατείας ἀπὸ ἡγουμένου πυλῶνος γυμνασίου ἐπὶ νότον μέχρι ῥύμης Ἱερακίου ἑκατέρωθεν τῶν μερῶν, τὰ συναγόμενα τῶν μισθῶν τοῦ ὅλου ἔργου ἀκολούθως τοῖς ψηφισθεῖσι ἐν τῇ κρατίστῃ βουλῇ, ἀργυρίου Σεβαστῶν νομίσματος τάλαντα τέσσαρα καὶ δραχμὰς τετρακισχιλίας, γίνονται τάλαντα δ δραχμαὶ Δ, καὶ ἀξιοῦμεν ἐπιστεῖλαί σε τῷ ταμίᾳ τῶν πολιτικῶν χρημάτων τὸν ἐξοδιασμὸν ἡμῖν ποιήσασθαι κατὰ τὸ ἔθος. ἔτους α Αὐτοκράτορος Καίσαρος Μάρκου Αὐρηλίου Κάρου καὶ Μάρκου Αὐρηλίου Καρίνου Γερμανικῶν Μεγίστων καὶ Μάρκου Αὐρηλίου Νουμεριανοῦ τῶν ἐπιφανεστάτων Καισάρων Εὐσεβῶν Εὐτυχῶν Σεβαστῶν, Φαρμοῦθι ιβ. Αὐρήλιος Μενεσθεὺς ἔσχον σὺν τῷ ἀδελφῷ μουτὰ τοῦ ἀργυρίου τάλαντα τέσσαρα καὶ δραχμὰς τετρακισχιλίας . Αὐρήλιος Νέμεσις συναπέσχον.

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EN AI · machine translation from the DDbDP edition (Claude Opus 5.5)
To Aurelius Apollonios also called Dionysios, former hypomnematographos and however he is styled, ex-gymnasiarch, councillor, prytanis in office of the glorious and most glorious city of the Oxyrhynchites, also administering the civic affairs, from Aurelius Menestheus and Aurelius Nemesianus, both sons of Dionysios, from the same glorious city of the Oxyrhynchites, Kasiotai. We request that instructions be sent for payment to us from the city's account, for the wages for the Kasiotic work we have done on the colonnaded street constructed by you from the main gateway of the gymnasium southward as far as the lane of Hierakion, on both sides, the total of the wages for the whole work, in accordance with what was voted in the most excellent council, 4 talents and 4,000 drachmas of silver of the coinage of the Augusti, total 4 talents 4,000 drachmas; and we ask you to instruct the treasurer of the civic funds to make the payment to us as is customary. Year 1 of Imperator Caesar Marcus Aurelius Carus and Marcus Aurelius Carinus, Germanici Maximi, and Marcus Aurelius Numerianus, the most illustrious Caesars, Pii Felices Augusti, Pharmouthi 12. [Aurelius] Menestheus: I have received with my brother the 4 talents and 4,000 drachmas of silver. [Aurelius Ne]mesis: I have received jointly.

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