A receipt addressed to the strategos of the Arsinoite nome by two village headmen and the tesserarius of Karanis, acknowledging payment from the nome's public bankers for 22 tunics and 8 cloaks they had delivered as a requisition of clothing. After a percentage deduction they received 19 talents 5,810 drachmas, in January 314.
In English machine translation
To Antonius Sarapammon, strategos of the Arsinoite nome,
from Aurelius Isidoros son of Palenis and Doulos son of Timotheos, both komarchs of the village of Karanis, and Isidoros, tesserarius of the same village.
We have been paid by the bankers of the public funds of the nome, on your warrant, for the price of the tunics and cloaks which we have supplied and delivered for the 7th year and 5th year, and which were delivered to Kyrillos and Demeas, receivers: 22 tunics at 4,000 drachmas each, 14 talents 4,000 drachmas; 8 cloaks at 5,000 drachmas each, 6 talents 4,000 drachmas; total 21 talents 2,000 drachmas, from which is deducted for the 6 1/2 percent 1 talent 2,190 drachmas; the remainder, 19 talents 5,810 drachmas, in full.
The receipt is valid, and having been asked the formal question we have agreed.
In the year after the 3rd consulship of our lords Constantine and Licinius Augusti, Tybi 20.
We, Aurelii Isidoros and Doulos and Isidoros, have been paid as stated above.
I, Aurelius Ision, wrote on their behalf, as they are illiterate.
The clothing was owed for regnal years 7 and 5 (AD 310/311), so payment came about three years late. A komarch was a village headman and the tesserarius a minor village official; the 6 1/2 percent deduction appears to be a fee withheld from the payment.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Receipt for the Price of Clothing). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.