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An order for payment from Amonios, secretary of the syntaxis (military pay allocation), instructing the banker Dionysios to pay from the garrison account for the months Pauni to Mesore of year 39, via two agents of Chairemon. It was written on 5 December 131 BC in the Herakleopolite nome.
The syntaxis here is the allocation of pay or rations for soldiers; the abbreviation 'lei(tourgon)' is uncertain and may designate assistants or functionaries of Chairemon. The end of the text, including the amount, is lost.
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 Amonios). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
ἔτους τεσσαρακοστοῦ Ἁθὺρ δωδεκάτηι. Ἀμώνιος γραμματεὺς συντάξεως Διονυσίωι τραπεζίτηι. χρημάτισον ἐκ τοῦ ἐν φρουροῖς λόγου εἰς τὰ ἀπὸ Παῦνι ἕως Μεσορὴ τοῦ λθ ἔτους διὰ Πτολεμαίου καὶ Φίλωνος τῶν Χαιρήμωνος λειτουργῶν [… ? lines lost …]
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