Receipt for the delivery of wine
Re-edited as P.Charite 18
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 15585
Receipt to Aurelia Charite for wine delivered for soldiers' supply TM 15585Hermopolite nomeca. A.D. 320-350
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Receipt issued by Aurelius Kyrillos, superintendent of wine shipments to the Thebaid (acting through his father Hermeias), to the landowner Aurelia Charite. It confirms she loaded 104 Italian sextarii of wine onto a boat for the supply of soldiers, as tax owed for land in the village of Sinarchebis in the 10th pagus of the Hermopolite nome.
In English machine translation
Aurelius Kyrillos son of Hermeias, superintendent of wine being conveyed to the Thebaid, through me his father Hermeias, to Aurelia Charite daughter of Amazonios, greetings. You have loaded onto the boat lying at anchor, for the provisioning of the most noble soldiers, on account of the private (land) tax assessment (kanon) of the 10th pagus, village of Sinarchebis, 104 Italian sextarii of wine, only. Pauni […].
I, Aurelius Kyrillos son of Hermeias, the aforementioned, through me his father, have signed.
The "kanon" was the regular tax assessment in kind; "private account" refers to privately owned land as opposed to public land. The Italian sextarius was a Roman liquid measure of roughly half a litre.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Quittung für gelieferten Wein). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
chrest.wilck.421
p.cair.goodsp.11
p.charite.18
Αὐρήλιος Κύριλλος Ἑρμείου ἐπιμελητὴς οἴνου ἀναφερομένου εἰς Θηβαίδα διʼ ἐμοῦ τοῦ πατρὸς Ἑρμείου Αὐρηλίᾳ Χαρίτῃ Ἀμαζονίου χαίρειν. ἐνεβάλου εἰς τὸ προσορμοῦν πλοῖον εἰς εὐθενείαν τῶν γενναιοτάτων στρατιωτῶν οἴνου λόγου ἰδιωτικοῦ κανόνος ι πάγου κώμης Σιναρχήβεως ξέστας Ἰταλικοὺς ἑ…