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p.oxy.6.896coli Oxyrhynchos
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Painter's cost estimate for decorating the public baths of Oxyrhynchus. A report by the painter Aurelius Artemidoros to the logistes (city curator) of Oxyrhynchus, Valerius Ammonianus also called Gerontius, estimating the cost of painting parts of the public Trajanic-Hadrianic baths then under repair. He gives separate figures for the cost of pigments and for the labour of painting. machine translation
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- chrest.wilck.48 DDbDP-text Oxyrhynchos
- Reports to a Logistes HGV-meta Oxyrhynchos
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· Greek
Transcription
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Οὐαλερίῳ Ἀμμωνιανῷ τῷ καὶ Γεροντίῳ λογιστῇ Ὀξυρυγχίτου
παρὰ Αὐρηλίου Ἀρτεμιδώρου Ἀρσινόου ἀπὸ τῆς
λαμπρᾶς καὶ λαμπροτάτης Ὀξυρυγχιτῶν πόλεως ζωγράφου τὴν
ἐπιστήμην. ἐπιζητούσῃ τῇ σῇ ἐμμελείᾳ τὴν
σύνοψιν τῶν δεομένων τόπων ζωγραφίας
τοῦ εὐτυχῶς ἐπισκευαζομένου Τραιανῶν
Ἁδριανῶν θερμῶν δημοσίου τῆς
αὐτῆς πόλεως βαλανίου, κατὰ ταῦτα δηλῶ χρῄζειν εἰς λόγον ζωγραφίας τῶν τε δεομένων
τόπων τῶν δύο ψυχροφόρων καὶ ἐμβατικοῦ
θόλου ἑνὸς καὶ ἀνδρομηκιαίων ὅλου ξυστοῦ
εἰσόδων καὶ ἐξόδων καὶ παραθολίων τεσσάρων
τοῦ ἐξωτέρου ξυστοῦ καὶ τῶν ἄλλων τόπων
εἰς μὲν τιμὴν χρωμάτων ἀργυρίου δηναρίων
μυριάδ[…]…[…]…εου ζωγραφίας ὅλων ἔργων
ἀργυρίου δηναρίωνμυριάδα μίαν · ὅπερ
προσφωνῶ.[…]
ὑπατείας Καικινίου Σαβίνου καὶ Οὐεττίου Ῥουφίνου
τῶν λαμπρωτάτων[…] Αὐρήλιος Ἀρτεμίδωρος
ἐπιδέδωκα. Αὐρήλιος[…]ων ἔγραψα ὑπὲρ αὐτοῦ μὴ εἰδότος.Translations (1)
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To Valerius Ammonianus also called Gerontius, logistes of the Oxyrhynchite nome,
from Aurelius Artemidoros son of Arsinoos, of the glorious and most glorious city of the Oxyrhynchites, a painter by profession. Since your diligence requires the estimate of the parts needing painting in the public bath of the Trajanic Hadrianic thermae of the same city, which is happily under repair, I accordingly declare that there are needed, on account of the painting of the parts that need it, namely the two cold-water rooms and one plunge rotunda, and the man-high surfaces of the whole colonnade, the entrances and exits, and four side-rotundas of the outer colonnade, and the other parts: for the price of colours, [...] myriads of silver denarii; [...] for the painting of the whole work, one myriad of silver denarii; which I report. [...]
In the consulship of Caecinius Sabinus and Vettius Rufinus, the most illustrious, [...]. I, Aurelius Artemidoros, have submitted this. I, Aurelius [...]on, wrote on his behalf since he is illiterate.
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- TM-Text 20358 primary
- DDbDP-Text p.oxy;6;896coli tier-1
- HGV-Text 20358 tier-1
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