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Request by komarchs of Sepho for payment for tunics and cloaks supplied TM 15955Sepho (Oxyrhynchites)29. Apr. 323

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Two village headmen (komarchs) of Sepho in the Oxyrhynchite nome ask Eudaimon, an official, to order the public bank to pay them the price of woollen tunics and cloaks they delivered to the treasury for the 9th and 10th indictions, less a deduction of 'hundredths'. The back carries an unrelated list of names, boats and boat captains.

In English machine translation

[recto] Under the consuls to be designated, for the 3rd time. To Eudaimon, from Apollos son of Psois and Dionys son of Psenamounis, both komarchs of the village of Sepho in the 7th pagus for the current year. We request that instructions be sent for payment to us of the price of what we supplied to the treasury: for the 10th indiction, 6 woollen tunics, 4 talents, of which the hundredths are 1,560 drachmas, remainder 3 talents 4,440 drachmas; 2 cloaks, 1 talent 4,000 drachmas, of which the hundredths are 650 drachmas, remainder 1 talent 3,350 drachmas; for the ninth indiction, 6 woollen tunics, 4 talents, of which the hundredths are 1,560 drachmas, remainder 3 talents 4,440 drachmas; 2 cloaks, 1 talent 4,000 drachmas, of which the hundredths are 650 drachmas, remainder 1 talent 3,350 drachmas; total … 10 talents 3,580 drachmas; and we ask you to instruct the public banker to make the payment to us. In the aforesaid consulship, Pachon 4. [verso] Pantonymos Totoes boat of Heraklios another of Leukadios Diogenes, captain Parion, captain, fodder-carrier Apphous, captain …

The 'hundredths' (hekatostai) were a percentage deduction from payments. The consular formula reflects the uncertainty about consuls in 323, a year of rivalry between Licinius and Constantine.

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.

p.oxy.44.3194

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 29. Apr. 323 · Sepho (Oxyrhynchites)

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