Receipt for Pay
Receipt given by Timotheos for receiving the pay of an assistant in the service of the decurionate; Aion contributes to the pay
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 10541
Receipt for three months' pay of a public assistant of the dekadarchy TM 10541Karanis (Arsinoites)353 CE – 354 CE
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A receipt in which Aurelius Timotheos, a public servant, acknowledges receiving from Aurelius Aion of Karanis three months' pay for the public assistant of the dekadarchy for the twelfth indiction. Another Karanis man, Aurelius Amonios, wrote it for him, probably in AD 353-354.
In English machine translation
Aurelius Timotheos son of Heraklides, public servant of Seleukos, to Aurelius Aion son of Sarapion, from Karanis, greetings.
I have received from you, for the pay of the public assistant of the dekadarchy, for the twelfth indiction, three months, 3 months only, in full.
I, Aurelius Amonios, from Karanis, wrote on his behalf.
The dekadarchy was a local policing or supervisory office (literally 'command of ten'), and the payment was a contribution toward its assistant's wages. The date rests on the twelfth indiction and is uncertain.
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 Pay). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
p.col.7.186
Αὐρήλιος Τιμώθεος Ἡρακλίδου δημόσιος Σελεύκου Αὐρηλίῳ Ἀιῶνι Σαραπίωνος ἀπὸ Καρανίδος χαίρειν· ἔσχον παρὰ σοῦ ὑπὲρ μισθοῦ δημοσίου βοηθείας δεκαδαρχίας ὑπὲρ δωδεκάτης ἰνδικτίονος μῆνας τρεῖς, μῆνας γ μόνα, πλῆρες. Αὐρήλιος Ἀμώνιος ἀπὸ Καρανίδος ἔγραψα ὑπὲρ αὐτοῦ.