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Fragment of an application by two men, one of them Gaius Longinus Priscus, an honourably discharged veteran, offering to lease the state concession for the goldsmith's trade at the village of Euhemeria in the Arsinoite nome for four years, starting in the month Sebastos of Hadrian's 13th year (AD 128). They offer an annual fee of 264 silver drachmas, payable in monthly instalments on the 10th, 20th and 30th days.
The text is an offer to the officials who farmed out trade monopolies; the 'goldsmith's trade' was a licensed concession taxed by the state. Sebastos is the honorific Roman-period name for the month Thoth.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below. It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
[… ? lines lost …] … ἀναγραφομένου ἐπʼ ἀμφόδου Ὡρίωνος Ἱερακίου καὶ Γαίου Λογγίνου Πρείσκου ἀπολυσίμου ἀπὸ στρατείας ὥς φησι ἐντίμως ἀπολυσίμου. βουλόμεθα ἐπιχωρηθῆναι παρʼ ὑμῶν τὴν χρυσοχοικὴν ἐργασίαν […]… κώμης Εὐημερείας εἰς ἔτη τέσσαρα ἔτι ἀπὸ μηνὸς Σεβαστοῦ τοῦ ἐνεστῶτος τρ…
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