p.charite.27
παρὰ Χαρίτης […]ρίγῳ χαίρειν. δὸς ὑπὲρ τιμῆς χόρτου ἀργυρίου τάλαντα ἑβδομήκοντα δύο γίνεται τάλαντα οβ ὑπὲρ τρεισκαιδεκάτης ἰνδικτίωνος Χαρίτη σεσημείωμαι.
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 15601
Order from Charite to pay 72 talents for hay TM 15601Hermopolis324 - 325 (?)
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A short payment order from the landowner Charite instructing a man whose name ends in -rigos to pay 72 silver talents as the price of hay for the thirteenth indiction. It comes from Hermopolis and probably dates to AD 324-325.
In English machine translation
From Charite to […]rigos, greetings. Pay for the price of hay 72 talents of silver, total 72 talents, for the thirteenth indiction.
I, Charite, have signed.
The addressee's name is only partly preserved (perhaps Rhodrigos or similar). Charite was a female landowner whose archive survives from 4th-century Hermopolis.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Zahlungsauftrag). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.