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A receipt issued by Ptolemaios alias Aristides, the gymnasiarch in office, to the village elders of Theadelphia for chaff they owed under an assessment for the month of Epeiph. The chaff was used to heat the baths of the great gymnasium, and was delivered through a certain Heroneinos. Dated 24 July 206 AD.
The epimerismos was a compulsory apportionment of a levy among villages, here supplying chaff as fuel for the bath furnaces of the metropolis gymnasium. Geta is styled Augustus in the text although he was only Caesar in 206.
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 Chaff). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
Πτολεμαῖος ὁ καὶ Ἀριστίδης ἔναρχος γυμνασίαρχος πρεσβυτέροις κώμης Θεαδελφίας χαίρειν. ἀπέσχον παρʼ ὑμῶν τὰ ἄχυρα τὰ ἐπιβάλλοντα ὑμῖν πρὸς τὸν γενόμενον ἐπιμερισμὸν ὑπὲρ τοῦ Ἐπὶφ μηνὸς χωροῦντα εἰς ὑπόκαυσιν βαλανείων τοῦ μεγάλου γυμνασίου διὰ Ἡρωνείνου […]υ. ἔτους ιδ Λουκίου Σεπ…
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