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Receipt of bath attendants for the price of wheat TM 16575Oxyrhynchos304 - 305

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A receipt in which two bath attendants, Munatius and Ammonios, acknowledge payment from their fellow worker Horion of the price of 2 artabas of wheat. It was written at Oxyrhynchus in AD 304-305 by Didymos on behalf of the two illiterate men.

In English machine translation

Aurelii Munatius and Ammonis, bath attendants, to Aurelius Horion, fellow worker, greetings. We have received from you for the price of 2 artabas of wheat, total 2 artabas, 2,400 drachmas of silver, total 2,600 (?) drachmas. Year 13 and 1 of our lords Constantius and Maximianus Augusti and Severus and Maximinus the most illustrious Caesars, […] We, Aurelii Munatius and Ammonios, have received as stated above. I, Aurelius Didymos, wrote on their behalf since they do not know letters.

The written sum (2,000 with 400 supplied by the editor) does not match the numeral, which reads 2,600 drachmas. Kapsarioi were bath-house attendants who looked after bathers' clothes.

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 Wheat). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.

DDbDP-text Full record →

p.oxy.36.2798

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 304 - 305 · Oxyrhynchos

Αὐρήλιοι Μουνάτιος καὶ Ἀμμώνις καψάριοι Αὐρηλίω Ὡρίωνι ὁμοέργῳ χαίρειν. ἔσχομεν παρὰ σοῦ ὑπὲρ τιμῆς πυροῦ ἀρταβῶν δύο γίνονται ἀρτάβαι β, ἀργυρίου δραχμὰς δισχιλίας τετρακοσίας γίνονται δραχμαὶ Βχ. ἔτους ιγ καὶ α τῶν κυρίων ἡμῶν Κωνσταντίου καὶ Μαξιμιανοῦ Σεβαστῶν καὶ Σεουήρου κα…