Bank Receipts
Receipts for public revenues collected by a banker
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 15710
Bank receipts for tax payments in gold by the priest Dioskoros TM 15710Oxyrhynchus, Oxyrhynchite nome, EgyptFebruary 1, 467 A.D.
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Receipts issued by the banker Paulos to the priest Dioskoros for gold paid toward the public taxes of the fifth indiction. The first records 11 solidi less 30 1/2 carats; a second, partly lost, records a further payment. Written at Oxyrhynchus on 1 February 467.
In English machine translation
Receipt of me, Paulos, banker. I have received from Dioskoros, priest, on account of the public taxes of the fifth indiction, in gold by the public standard, eleven solidi less thirty and a half carats, total 11 solidi less 30 1/2 carats.
I, the same Paulos, signed.
Year 143/112, Mecheir 7.
I have likewise received from the same, in gold by the public standard, […] solidi less ten(?) […] carats […]
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The year is given in the Oxyrhynchite era (years 143 and 112), used to date documents at Oxyrhynchus. The nomismation (solidus) was the standard gold coin, and the keration (carat) a fraction of it; 'less 30 1/2 carats' indicates the shortfall from full solidi.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Bank Receipts). 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.mich.14.681
ἐντάγιον ἐμοῦ Παύλου τραπεζίτου. ἔσχον παρὰ Διοσκόρου πρεσβυτέρου ἀπὸ λόγου δημοσίων πέμπτης ἰνδικτίωνος χρυσοῦ δημοσίῳ σταθμῷ νομισμάτια ἕνδεκα παρὰ κεράτια τριάκοντα ἥμισυ, γίνεται νομισμάτια ια παρὰ κεράτια λ 𐅵. ὁ αὐτὸς Παῦλος ἐσημειωσάμην ἔτους ρμγ ριβ, Μεχεὶρ ζ. ἔσχον ὁμοίως…