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Quittance from Charite to her steward Sarapion for accounts of grain and expenses TM 15616Hermopolis

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A receipt and quittance issued by Charite, daughter of Amazonios, to her steward Sarapion son of Hermias, acknowledging that he has rendered full accounts of wheat, barley and other expenditures and that she has no further claim against him. It comes from Hermopolis.

In English machine translation

Charite daughter of Amazonios, and however I am styled, to Sarapion son of Hermias, steward […] of the city, greetings. […] from you the accounts […] of wheat and barley and […] other expenditures […] in full, and I have no claim against you concerning the accounts, and having been asked the formal question I have agreed. In the consulship […] […] Thoth […] I, Charite, have signed.

Charite was a wealthy landowner of 4th-century Hermopolis whose archive survives; the consular date is lost. A pronoētēs was an estate manager or steward acting on the owner's behalf.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Empfangsbescheinigung). 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.charite.37

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · Hermopolis

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