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Request by bath lessees for payment of wages from city funds TM 15940Oxyrhynchos222 - 234

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A request addressed to the presiding prytanis of Oxyrhynchus by two lessees of a bath, once owned by Arrius Apollinarius and now city property. They ask that the city treasurer pay them 500 drachmas from civic funds as wages for their service in the month Epeiph, under the terms of their tender. It dates to the reign of Severus Alexander.

In English machine translation

[…] […] to the prytanis in office of the city of the Oxyrhynchites, from the Aurelii Tyrannos son of Ptolemaios and Apeis son of Ptollion, both lessees of the bath formerly of Arrius Apollinarius and now of the city. We ask that there be issued from the city's account, for wages for the service we perform in the present month Epeiph, the 500 drachmas falling due for this month in accordance with our tender, and we request you to instruct the treasurer of the civic funds to make the payment to us of the aforesaid 500 drachmas. Year […] of Imperator Caesar Marcus Aurelius Severus Alexander Pius Felix Augustus, Epeiph […] […]

The beginning and end are lost, including the exact regnal year. The 'tender' (hairesis) refers to the bid by which the men contracted to operate the bath for the city.

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.44.3176

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 222 - 234 · Oxyrhynchos

[… ? lines lost …] [… 2 lines lost …] ἐνάρχῳ πρυτάνει τῆς Ὀξυρυγχιτῶν πόλεως παρὰ Αὐρηλίων Τυράννου Πτολεμαίου καὶ Ἄπειτος Πτολλίωνος ἀμφοτέρων μισθωτῶν βαλανείου πρότερον Ἀρρίου Ἀπολιναρίου νυνὶ δὲ τῆς πόλεως. αἰτούμεθα ἐπισταλῆναι ἐκ τοῦ τῆς πόλεως λόγου ὑπὲρ μισθῶν ἧς ποιούμεθ…