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An order for payment in kind from the brothers Aelianus and Olympiodoros, acting through their father Hyperechios, instructing Apollonios, the receiver at Pesla, to give the builder Nenis the younger four jars of wine and one jar of vinegar toward his wages. The goods are valued at 300 drachmas per jar of wine and 240 drachmas for the vinegar. It dates to AD 300-301, from the Hermopolite area.
The brothers are described as emancipated from paternal power (patria potestas) yet act through their father. The regnal years 17, 16 and 9 refer to the joint reign of the Tetrarchs.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below. It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
παρὰ Αἰλιανοῦ καὶ Ὀλυμπιοδώρου ἀδελφοῦ ἀπολυθέντων τῆς πατρικῆς ἐξουσίας διʼ ἐμοῦ τοῦ πατρὸς Ὑπερεχίου Ἀπολλωνίῳ παραλημπτῇ Πέσλα. δὸς Νῆνι νεωτέρῳ οἰκοδόμῳ εἰς λόγον μισθῶν αὐτοῦ ἄχρι συνάρσεως οἴνου κεράμια τέσσαρα καὶ ὄξους κεράμιον ἕν . γίνεται τοῦ ἐπιστάλματος οἴνου κεράμια …
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