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Instructions from the Strategus to a Banker via HGV-meta
Order to public bankers to pay half-freight to boatmen carrying estate wheat. Copy of an order from Claudius Herodes, strategos of the Oxyrhynchite nome, countersigned by the royal scribe Hermaios, instructing the public bankers Theon and partners to pay boatmen of Oxyrhynchus half the freight charge for carrying imperial estate wheat to Neapolis. A list of eleven boatmen with their loads and payments follows, totalling 752 drachmas 3 obols, dated in year 2 of Vespasian. machine translation
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- Instructions from the Strategus to a Banker HGV-meta Oxyrhynchos69
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ἀντίγραφον. Κλαύδιος Ἡρώδης στρατηγὸς Ὀξυρυγχίτου
Θέωνι καὶ μετόχοις δημοσίων τραπεζίταις τοῦ αὐτοῦ νομοῦ χαίρειν. χρηματίσατε συνεπιστέλλοντος Ἑρμαίου βασιλικοῦ γραμματέως τοῖς ὑπογεγραμμένοις διεραματίταις ἀπʼ
Ὀξυρύγχων πόλεως ἐξ ἀλληλεγγύης ἡμίναυλον τοῦ ἀρχῆθεν
ὡρισμένου ναύλου τῶν ἑκατὸν ἀρταβῶν δραχμαὶ λε
ἐφʼ ᾧ παραδώσουσι εἰς τὴν Νέαν Πόλιν τῷ ἰδίωι
κινδύνῳ τὸν ἐμβληθησόμενον αὐτοῖς πυρὸν
οὐσιακὸν ὑπὸ Κλαυδίου Θέωνος καθαρὸν ἀπὸ
πάσης κακουργίας· τὰ συναγόμενα τοῦ ἡμιναύλου ὧν ἐμβάλλονται χωρὶς ἐπιμηνίων
τῶν συνήθως …[…]…λλομένων·
Κιλικᾶι Π…τ…υ ἀγωγῆς ἀρταβῶν φλ ἀρτάβαι φ δραχμαὶ πζ τριώβολον
Ἡρακλήωι Ἡρακλήου ἀγωγῆς ἀρταβῶν φλ ἀρτάβαι φ δραχμαὶ πζ τριώβολον
Ἁρπάλῳ Ἁρπάλου ἀρταβῶν τιη ἀρτάβαι τ δραχμαὶ νβ τριώβολον
Ἀμόιτι …[…]…α…ους ἀρταβῶν τιη ἀρτάβαι τ δραχμαὶ νβ τριώβολον
Σαραπίωνι …ηιο ἀρταβῶν τοα ἀρτάβαι τν δραχμαὶ ξα ὀβολὸς
Παποντῶτι Σύρου ἀρταβῶν τιη ἀρτάβαι τ δραχμαὶ νβ τριώβολον
Ὥρῳ …χου ἀρταβῶν σιβ ἀρτάβαι σ δραχμαὶ λε
Ἡρα[…]ἀρταβῶνσιβ ἀρτάβαι σ δραχμαὶ λε
Λο…[…] ἀρταβῶν τιη ἀρτάβαι τ δραχμαὶ νβ τριώβολον
Ἑρμοῦτι Δαμαρίωνος ἀρταβῶν υκδ ἀρτάβαι υ δραχμαὶ ο
Διονυσίωι Διονυσίου Σαπρων ἀρταβῶν τιη ἀρτάβαι τ δραχμαὶ νβ τριώβολον
ἐπὶ τὸ αὐτὸ δραχμαὶ ψνβ τριώβολον, ἐξ ὧν ὑπολογήσατε τὰς
συνήθως προστιθεμένας τῷ κυριακῷ λόγῳ ἑκατοστὰς καὶ λάβετε παρʼ αὐτῶν τὴν καθήκουσαν ἀποχήν. ἔτους β Αὐτοκράτορος Καίσαρος Οὐεσπασιανοῦ
Σεβαστοῦ Τῦβι …[…]Σεβαστῆι.
[… ? lines lost …]Translations (1)
Copy. Claudius Herodes, strategos of the Oxyrhynchite nome, to Theon and partners, public bankers of the same nome, greetings. Pay, with Hermaios the royal scribe joining in the instruction, to the undersigned ferrymen (?) from the city of Oxyrhynchus, on their mutual guarantee, the half-freight of the originally fixed freight charge of 35 drachmas per 100 artabas, on condition that they deliver to Neapolis at their own risk the estate wheat to be loaded onto their boats by Claudius Theon, clean of all adulteration. The amounts of the half-freight for what they load, excluding the customary extra charges (?) […]:
to Kilikas son of P[…], of a capacity of 530 artabas, 500 artabas, 87 drachmas 3 obols
to Herakleos son of Herakleos, of a capacity of 530 artabas, 500 artabas, 87 drachmas 3 obols
to Harpalos son of Harpalos, of 318 artabas, 300 artabas, 52 drachmas 3 obols
to Amois son of […], of 318 artabas, 300 artabas, 52 drachmas 3 obols
to Sarapion son of […], of 371 artabas, 350 artabas, 61 drachmas 1 obol
to Papontos son of Syros, of 318 artabas, 300 artabas, 52 drachmas 3 obols
to Horos son of […]chos, of 212 artabas, 200 artabas, 35 drachmas
to Hera[…], of 212 artabas, 200 artabas, 35 drachmas
to Lo[…], of 318 artabas, 300 artabas, 52 drachmas 3 obols
to Hermouthis son of Damarion, of 424 artabas, 400 artabas, 70 drachmas
to Dionysios son of Dionysios, Sapron (?), of 318 artabas, 300 artabas, 52 drachmas 3 obols
Total 752 drachmas 3 obols, from which deduct the percentages customarily added to the imperial account, and receive from them the appropriate receipt. Year 2 of Imperator Caesar Vespasian Augustus, Tybi […], the day of Augustus.
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- TM-Text 78598 primary
- DDbDP-Text p.oxy;66;4526 tier-1
- HGV-Text 78598 tier-1
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