Receipt for Secretary's Salary and Expenses
Receipt issued by a Chairemon, secretary of the elders of some 7th year, to one of the elders of the same year, acknowledging the payment of 200 drachmai for salary and other expenses
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Receipt for a secretary's salary and expenses TM 12175(probably) Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt(Late) IInd century or early IIIrd century A.D.
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A receipt from Chairemon, secretary of the village elders of year 7, to Horos, one of the elders of that year, acknowledging 200 drachmas paid for his salary and other expenses. It was written at Karanis in the Arsinoite nome, probably on 3 March AD 201 or 230.
In English machine translation
Chairemon, secretary of the elders of year 7, to Horos, elder of the same year, greetings. I have received on account, for the same year, 200 drachmas, total 200 drachmas, for salary account and other expenses.
Year 9, Phamenoth 7.
The regnal year 9 fits either Septimius Severus (AD 201) or Severus Alexander (AD 230); one catalogue gives more broadly the late 2nd or early 3rd century AD. The 'elders' (presbyteroi) were village officials responsible for local administration and taxes.
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 Secretary’s Salary and Expenses). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
Receipt
Receipt for Secretary's Salary and Expenses
p.mich.6.371
Χαιρήμων γραμματεὺς πρεσβυτέρων ζ ἔτους Ὥρῳ πρεσβυτέρῳ τοῦ αὐτοῦ ἔτους χαίρειν. ἔσχον εἰς λόγον δια τοῦ αὐτοῦ ἔτους δραχμὰς διακοσίας, γίνονται δραχμαὶ σ, ὑπὲρ ὀψωνίου λόγου, καὶ ἄλλας δαπάνας. ἔτους θ Φαμενὼθ ζ.