Mitteilung über den Empfang einer Quittung für die Übersendung einer Priester- und Inventarliste
For a receipt for an official temple report
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Acknowledgement of receipt for a list of priests and temple inventory from Bakchias TM 14144Bakchias (Arsinoites)Roman CE ii-iii (ca. 199)
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A short statement addressed to the royal scribe of the Herakleides division of the Arsinoite nome by Orsenouphis son of Horos, an elder priest of the god Soknobraisis at Bakchias. He reports that he has submitted the annual list of priests and the account of the temple's administration and has received a receipt for it, around AD 199.
In English machine translation
To […], royal scribe of the Arsinoite nome, Herakleides division,
from Orsenouphis son of Horos, elder of the priests of Soknobraisis, the great, great god, of the village of Bakchias.
I have submitted to you the list of priests and of the administration of the temple for the current […] year, and I have received the receipt.
The graphē of priests and cheirismos (temple management or inventory) was an annual return that Roman-period temples had to file with the authorities. The regnal year number 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 Mitteilung über den Empfang einer Quittung für die Übersendung einer Priester- und Inventarliste). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
p.bacch.18
τῷ δεῖνι βασιλικῷ γραμματεῖ Ἀρσινοίτου Ἡρακλείδου μερίδος παρὰ Ὀρσενούφεως Ὥρου πρεσβυτέρου ἱερέων Σοκνοβραίσεως θεοῦ μεγάλου μεγάλου κώμης Βακχιάδος. κατεχώρισά σοι γραφὴν ἱερέων καὶ χειρισμοῦ τοῦ ἱεροῦ τοῦ ἐνεστῶτος […]ἔτους καὶ ἔσχον τὴν ἀποχήν.