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A payment order from Alexandros, secretary responsible for the pay of the river guards, instructing the banker Dionysios to pay 2 talents 530 drachmas in bronze to the liturgist Horos son of Petosiris. The money covers the river guards' pay for Pharmouthi to Mesore of year 39 and is part of a total allotment of 23 1/3 talents. It was issued in the Herakleopolite nome in December 131 BC.
The syntaxis was the fixed pay allotment of the river guards (potamophylakes), a Ptolemaic police force on the Nile. The expanded abbreviations for the officials' titles are the editor's.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Soldzahlungen für Flußwächter). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
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