Receipt for Payment on Wine
Receipt for payment of 400 drachmae by a wine merchant.
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 10912
Receipt for payment by a wine-seller for wine of the estate of Antonius Philoxenos TM 10912Kasr el Banat (Fayum)240 CE
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A receipt recording that Chrysas, a wine-seller of Euhemeria in the Fayum, paid 400 silver drachmas toward the price of wine from the second year's vintage into the account of the estate owner Antonius Philoxenos, through his manager Aurelius Nemesianus. It is dated 8 July 240, under Gordian III.
In English machine translation
Year 3 of Imperator Caesar Marcus Antonius Gordianus Pius Felix Augustus, Epeiph 14. Chrysas, wine-seller of the village of Euhemeria, has paid into the account of Antonius Philoxenos, vir egregius, through Aurelius Nemesianus, manager, from the price of wine of the produce of year 2, 400 drachmas of silver, total 400 drachmas.
"Kratistos" (most excellent) renders the Roman rank title vir egregius, here applied to a large estate owner; the "cheiristes" was the estate's financial manager.
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 Payment on Wine). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
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