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A fragmentary payment order in which Archibios instructs Dionysios to pay an amount to the ibis-keepers, apparently for the feeding of the sacred ibises, with a total of 12. It dates to about 131 BC and comes from the Herakleopolite nome.
The ibis-keepers (ibioboskoi) tended the sacred ibises kept at temples; their food was funded from income of temple land. The word for the ibises on the verso is restored.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Kassenverfügung des Archibios). 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] Ἀρχίβιος Διονυσίωι χαίρειν. δοὺς … α… ἰβιοβοσκοις κα[…] … πο…[…] … των…χρημάτισον … εἰς τ……[…] δεκαδύο γίνεται […] ιβ. ἔτους … Φαρμοῦθι … πορρ…[…] Ἡρακλείδ[…] ὑποτ…[…] αποτ…[…] [v] Διονυσίωι· τροφῆς ἰβίων[…] αι διεγράφ…πε… κατεχομένης …αι γῆς[…]
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