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A payment order from Alexandros, secretary of the pay organization (syntaxis) of the river guards, instructing the banker Dionysios to pay Onnophris 2 talents 2,000 drachmas of bronze from funds assigned for the river guards' pay through Mesore of year 39. It dates to 131 BC in the Herakleopolite nome.
The syntaxis here is the fund or organization for the river guards' pay; the regnal year 40 is restored, matching the date of 131 BC under Ptolemy VIII.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Anweisung des Alexandros). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
[v] …ε ἔτους μ Ἀθὺρ ιη. Ἀλέξανδρος γραμματεὺς συντάξεως ποταμοφυλάκων Διονυσίωι τραπεζίτηι χαίρειν. χρημάτισον ἀπὸ τῶν ἐπεσταλμένων σοι ὥστε τοῖς ἐν τῶι νομῶι ποταμοφύλαξιν εἰς τὰ ἕως Μεσορὴ τοῦ λθ ἔτους Ὀννώφρει χαλκοῦ τάλαντα δύο δισχιλίας, γίνεται τάλαντα β Β.
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