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A payment order from Phoibammon, a man of high rank, to his estate manager (pronoetes), also named Phoibammon, instructing him to pay gold and barley to Martes the poultry-keeper and to another Phoibammon. It totals 5 solidi less 26 carats and 75 artabas of barley and is dated Phaophi 13 of a 15th indiction, from the Hermopolite nome in the 5th-6th century.
"Less X carats" means the stated number of solidi minus that many carats (1/24 solidus each). The pronoetes was an estate manager; the second payee's epithet is illegible.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Money an Barley for Martes and Phoebammon). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
[r] παρὰ Φοιβάμμωνος λαμπροτάτου † Φοιβάμμωνι προνοητῇ. παράσχου Μάρτῃ ὀρνεοτρόφῳ χρυσοῦ νομισμάτια τρία παρὰ κεράτια δεκαπέντε καὶ κριθῶν ἀρτάβας τεσσεράκοντα πέντε μέτρῳ Ἀθηναίῳ καὶ Φοιβάμμωνι …ουτ χρυσοῦ νομισμάτια δύο παρὰ κεράτια ἕνδεκα καὶ κριθῶν ἀρτάβας τριάκοντα, γίνεται …
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