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Request for payment from civic funds for a public bath TM 15388Oxyrhynchos29. Aug. - 27. Sept. 246

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A request by Aurelius Ophellius asking an official to instruct the treasury of the civic funds of Oxyrhynchus to pay him 2,475 drachmas. The sum covers five months, Pachon to Thoth, at 495 drachmas a month, in connection with the bath formerly belonging to Arrius Apollinarius, in the reign of Philip the Arab, AD 246.

In English machine translation

[...] [...] at 495 drachmas [...] drachmas, two thousand four hundred and seventy-five, total 2,475 drachmas, and I ask you to instruct the treasury of the civic funds to pay these out to me. Year 4 of Imperator Caesar Marcus Julius Philippus Pius Felix and Marcus Julius Philippus, most noble and most illustrious Caesar, Augusti, Thoth. I, Aurelius Ophellius, make the request as above stated. To the treasury of the civic funds: for the bath formerly of Arrius Apollinarius, for 5 months from Pachon to Thoth, 495 drachmas (per month), the total amounting to 2,475 drachmas. Year 4, Thoth.

The opening, naming the addressee and the service paid for, is lost; payments of this kind from the civic treasury probably relate to supplies or services for running the bath. 5 months at 495 drachmas gives the 2,475 drachmas total.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Request for Payment). 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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p.oxy.50.3566

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 29. Aug. - 27. Sept. 246 · Oxyrhynchos

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