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Request for payment of wages to lessees of a city-owned bath TM 15937Oxyrhynchos1. Juli - 23. Aug. 222

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Two lessees of a bath, formerly private and now owned by the city of Oxyrhynchus, ask the prytanis Gaius Calpurnius Lucius to instruct the civic treasurer to pay them 500 drachmas as wages for their service in the month Mesore. Dated to the first year of Severus Alexander (AD 222).

In English machine translation

To Gaius Calpurnius Lucius, and however he is styled, gymnasiarch, prytanis in office of the city of the Oxyrhynchites, from the Aurelii Tyrannos son of Ptolemaios, his mother being Tausiris, and Apeis son of Ptollion, his mother being Hermione, both lessees of the bath formerly of Arrius Apolinarius and now of the city. We ask that there be ordered paid from the city's account, for the wages of the service which we perform for the current month Mesore, 500 drachmas, and we request that you instruct the treasurer of the civic funds to make disbursement to us of the aforesaid 500 drachmas. Year 1 of Imperator Caesar Marcus Aurelius Severus Alexander Pius Felix Augustus, Mesore […]. (2nd hand?) I, Aurelius Tyrannos son of Ptolemaios, request the 500 drachmas as stated above. […]

The bath had passed from private ownership (Arrius Apolinarius) to the city, and its operators were paid monthly from civic funds. The prytanis was the presiding magistrate of the town council.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Request for Payment). 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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p.oxy.44.3173

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 1. Juli - 23. Aug. 222 · Oxyrhynchos

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