p.genova.2.86
διαγέγραφε Φχορχῶνσις διὰ Πετεμ Ε…ο[…]ὑπὲρ τιμῆς πυροῦ διοικέσεως β ἔτους δραχμὰς δέκα ἓξ τετρώβολον· γίνονται δραχμαὶ ιϛ τετρώβολον καὶ προσδιαγραφόμενα ἐξ ὀβολοῦ ἡμιωβελίου· ἔτους γ Γαίου Καίσαρος Σεβαστοῦ Γερμανικοῦ Τῦβι ια …[…]
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 15538
Receipt for payment of the price of wheat for the dioikesis TM 15538Theben6. Jan. 39
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Tax receipt from Thebes recording that a man paid 16 drachmas 4 obols through an agent as the money price of wheat owed to the state administration for year 2. He also paid the customary supplementary charges. It is dated to 11 Tybi of year 3 of Gaius (Caligula), 6 January AD 39.
In English machine translation
Pachorchonsis (?) has paid, through Petem[…] E…o[…], for the price of wheat of the dioikesis for year 2, sixteen drachmas four obols; total 16 drachmas 4 obols, and the additional charges at the rate of 1 1/2 obols. Year 3 of Gaius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, Tybi 11 […]
The "price of wheat" (timē pyrou) was a money payment made in place of grain owed to the dioikesis, the state's general administration. The payer's name is abbreviated and its expansion is uncertain, and the agent's name is damaged.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Ricevuta di pagamento per τιμὴ πυροῦ). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.