Receipt fo a Whipbearer
Receipt issued by Aurelius Paulos, in charge of the state horses, to the komarchs of Karanis for one man serving during one month as whipbearer for animals used in state service
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 12041
Receipt for a whipbearer for the treasury horses TM 12041probably Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of EgyptSeptember 6, 298 A.D.
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A receipt in which Aurelius Paulos, groom of the state (treasury) horses serving the city, acknowledges receiving from the two komarchs (village headmen) of Karanis one man to serve as whipbearer for the horses during the month of Thoth. It is dated 6 September 298 at Karanis in the Arsinoite nome.
In English machine translation
Aurelius Paulos, groom of the treasury horses (assigned) to the service of the city,
to Aurelii Alexandros and Aphrodisios, both komarchs of the village of Karanis, greetings. I have received from you for the service of the horses, for the current month Thoth, one whipbearer.
Aurelius Paulos, aged about […], with a scar on the left heel.
Year 15 and 14 and 7 of our lords Diocletian and Maximian Augusti and Constantius and Maximian the most illustrious Caesars, in the consulship of Annicius Faustus and Virius Gallus, Thoth 9.
The whipbearer (rhabdouchos) was a man supplied by the village as a compulsory service to tend or drive the state-owned horses. Komarchs were village officials responsible for providing such liturgical personnel.
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 a Whipbearer). 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.mich.9.548
Αὐρήλιος Παῦλος ἱπποκόμος τῶν ἀπὸ τῆς πόλεως ὑπηρεσίας ταμιακῶν ἵππων Αὐρηλίοις Ἀλεξάνδρῳ καὶ Ἀφροδισίῳ ἀμφοτέροις κωμάρχαις κώμης Καρανίδος χαίρειν. παρέλαβον παρʼ ὑμῶν εἰς ὑπηρεσίαν τῶν ἵππων ὑπὲρ τοῦ ἐνεστῶτος μηνὸς Θὼθ ῥαβδοῦχον ἕνα . Αὐρήλιος Παῦλος ὡς ἐτῶν[…]οὐλὴ πτέρνῃ ἀρι…