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One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 16563
Order from Iulius Lepos to the banker Archibios to pay Harpokration TM 16563Oxyrhynchos28. Apr. 11 (?)
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An order from Iulius Lepos to the banker Archibios to pay 1,953 silver drachmas to another banker, Harpokration. It is dated to year 40 of (Augustus) Caesar, Pachon 3, probably 28 April AD 11, and comes from Oxyrhynchus.
In English machine translation
[recto]
[…] Iulius Lepos to Archibios, banker, greetings. Pay for me to Harpokration, banker, 1,953 drachmas of silver, total 1,953 drachmas. […] Year 40 of […] Caesar, Pachon 3.
[verso]
[…]
The Greek is written in Latin letters (transliterated Greek), an unusual feature. The 'collybistes' was a money-changer or banker.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Instructions to a Banker). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.