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p.oxy.4.710

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Order for payment to postal letter-carriers in the Oxyrhynchite nome. Fragmentary order for payment instructing that wages be paid to the staff of the postal service in the Oxyrhynchite nome: 44 letter-carriers, an hour-recorder, an inspector and a camel-driver, 47 in all, for the month Thoth of year 7. A second fragment preserves only sums in talents. machine translation

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Inscription #1 · Greek · Greek

Transcription

[FrA] [… ? lines lost …] […] χρημάτισον τοῖς ἐν τῶι Ὀξυρυγχίτηι βυβλιαφόροις ἀνδράσι μδ ὡρογράφωι α ἐφόδωι α καμηλίτηι α, γίνονται μζ, τοῦ Θωὺθ τοῦ ζ ἔτους κατὰ τὰ [… ? lines lost …] [FrB] [… ? lines lost …] […] τάλαντ […] […] α τάλαντον α […] […] α τάλαντον α […] [… ? lines lost …]

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EN AI · machine translation from the DDbDP edition (Claude Opus 5.5)
[Fragment A] […] […] pay to the letter-carriers in the Oxyrhynchite nome, men 44, hour-recorder 1, inspector 1, camel-driver 1, total 47, for Thoth of year 7, according to the […] […] [Fragment B] […] […] talents […] […] 1, 1 talent […] […] 1, 1 talent […] […]

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