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Municipal accounts listing payments by magistrates to the treasury TM 15849Oxyrhynchos169 - 173 (?)

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Fragmentary municipal accounts from Oxyrhynchos, around AD 169-173, recording sums owed or paid by town magistrates, including amounts from audits of accounts and payments for repair of a bath and for the theatre. The second column lists, by day, payments into the treasury by former or serving officials such as agoranomoi, gymnasiarchs, an exegetes, a kosmetes and high priests.

In English machine translation

[column 1] […] […] […] former overseer (epimeletes) […] owed from audit of accounts 37 drachmas […] former agoranomos, former overseer […] from audit 68 drachmas 1 obol 3 chalkoi […] high priest, for repair […] of the bath […] total 3,000 drachmas […] 5,000 drachmas […]anos through […] of the theatre 55 drachmas 3 obols […] 3,400 drachmas […] former [overseer] of the theatre 32 drachmas […] […] […] 800 [drachmas] […] […] 400 [drachmas] […] 1,000 [drachmas] […] [column 2] […] of the treasury (Day) 1: Diogenes son of Sarapion, former agoranomos and gymnasiarch […] Heraklas son of Phanias, former agoranomos […] Apoll[…]es also called Herakleides […] (Day) 8: Klaros, agoranomos in office […] (Day) 15: Tiberius Claudius Herakleides […] […] Herakleides also called Dionysios, former gymnasiarch […] […] Andromachos also called Theon, former agoranomos […] (Day) 24: Theon also called Chonsion, appointed […] Kastor son of Asklepiades […] (Day) 26: Dorion, exegetes in office […] (Day) 27: Diogenes son of Sarapion, former agoranomos and [gymnasiarch] […] (Day) 28: Dionysios son of Apollonios, former kosmetes […] (Day) 29: Andromachos also called Theon […] (Day) 30: Ptolemaios son of Theon and Maron […] (son?) of Herakleides, former high priest […] Gaius Calpurnius Petroni[…] Gaius Calpurnius Ptolemaios […] Apion son of Apion, likewise […] Theon son of Sarapion, former high priest […] Dionysios son of Hermippos, overseer […] which he received from the heirs of H[…] Total […]

The numerals at the start of lines in column 2 are taken here as days of the month. Epimeletes (overseer) and agoranomos (market official) are Greek municipal offices without exact English equivalents.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Municipal Accounts From Oxyrhynchos). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.

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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 169 - 173 (?) · Oxyrhynchos

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