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Receipt for the price of a cloak delivered to the staff of the catholicus TM 16028Hermopolis20. März 306

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A receipt from Hermopolis, dated 20 March 306, in which Aurelius Polydeukes also called Taurinos, a former exegetes and town councillor, acknowledges payment from the public bank for a military cloak he made and delivered to the staff of the catholicus Serapodoros, on orders of the procurator of the Lower Thebaid. A second copy or related document, addressed to the strategos of the Hermopolite nome, survives only in its opening lines.

In English machine translation

[1] In the consulship of our lords Constantius and Maximianus. Aureli[…] Aurelius Polydeukes also called Taurinos, former exegetes, councillor of the most splendid city of Hermes, greetings. I have been paid by the bankers of the public funds of the same nome, in accordance with the […] by you, on the instructions in writing of Aurelius Hierax, procurator of the Lower Thebaid, for the price of 1 cloak (chlamys) manufactured by me and delivered to the staff of the most eminent catholicus […]ius Serapodoros, by order […], in silver of the Augusti coinage, […] talents, in full. I have issued this receipt in 7 copies, 4 to you and 3 (?) to the bankers […], and in answer to the formal question I gave my assent. Year 14 and year 2 of our lords Constantius and Maximianus Augusti and Severus and Maximinus the most illustrious Caesars, Phamenoth 24. I, Aurelius Taurinos son of Achilleus, have been paid as stated above. [2] In the consulship of our lords […] Constantius and Maximianus Augusti [for the 6th time] […] To Aurelius Po[…], strategos of the Herm[opolite nome] […] Aurelius Hermo[…] […] […]

The chlamys was a military cloak supplied to the state; the catholicus was a senior imperial finance official. The amount in talents and the number of copies for the bankers are partly illegible.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Receipt for the Price of a Cloak). 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 · 20. März 306 · Hermopolis

[1] ἐπὶ ὑπάτων τῶν κυρίων ἡμῶν Κωνσταντίου καὶ Μαξιμιανοῦ Αὐρηλι Αὐρήλιος Πολυδεύκης ὁ καὶ Ταυρῖνος ἐξηγητεύσας βουλευτὴς τῆς λαμπροτάτης Ἑρμοῦ πόλεως χαίρειν. ἠρίθμημαι παρὰ δημοσίων χρημάτων τραπεζιτῶν τοῦ αὐτοῦ νομοῦ ἀκολούθως τοῖσ…ι…[…]…[…]…οις ὑπὸ σοῦ ἐκ γραμμάτων Αὐρηλίου Ἱ…