p.jena.2.23
παρὰ Φοιβάμμωνος λαμπροτάτου […]… Ἀπολλῶτι συναλλακτῇ. παράσχου εἰς τὴν […] ἀποδημίαν ἀργυρίου τάλαντα ἑξακόσια […]…ταλ… ἐγράφη Χοιὰκ λ […]… ἰνδικτίωνος ι…[…]…ου τάλαντα ἑξακόσια μόνα … […]…
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 128704
Order from Phoibammon to Apollos the synallaktes for payment of 600 talents TM 128704HermopolitesV - VI
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An order for payment from Phoibammon, a man of senatorial rank, instructing the banker or agent Apollos to pay out 600 talents of silver for a journey. It was written on Choiak 30 in an indiction year, in the Hermopolite nome in the 5th or 6th century AD.
In English machine translation
From Phoibammon, vir clarissimus,
[…] to Apollos, the banker (synallaktes). Provide for the […] journey 600 talents of silver
[…] talents […]. Written Choiak 30
[…] indiction 1[…] […] talents
600 only […]
[…]
A synallaktes was a financial intermediary, roughly a banker or money-changer, through whom such payment orders were issued. 'Talents' here are units of inflated late Roman money of account, not large sums of bullion.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Order for Payment Addressed to a συναλλακτής). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.