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Municipal account of sums owed by magistrates for festivals and gymnasium bath TM 17508Oxyrhynchos

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A fragmentary municipal account from Oxyrhynchus listing sums owed or paid by former magistrates (exegetai and a gymnasiarch), as reported by the writer's predecessor. The payments concern sacrifices and festivals in the theatre, a procession, and the heating and construction of the gymnasium bath, with payments to the city treasurer.

In English machine translation

[recto] […] … treasurer (argyrotamias) […] and there is added through the banker on Mecheir 8, 3 talents […] […] 6, 1 talent, total 4 talents. […] who was exegetes in year 10, reported by my predecessor as owing for sacrifices […] […] held in the theatre at the festival, Tybi (and) Pachon, 1 talent, [of which there were paid to the] treasurer in year 11, in the month Hadrianos, 12, 5,000 drachmas, remaining 1,000 drachmas. […] for the conducting of the procession during the exegeteship, 1 talent. […] son of Epimachos, exegetes in year 6, gymnasiarch […] [reported by] my predecessor as owing for the heating of the bath of the gymnasium […] […] and for the construction of the formerly old bath of the gymnasium, 1,476 drachmas, bath […] […] 1,000 drachmas, and for the delivery of […] […] for two sacrifices held in the theatre for the […] […] 1,276 drachmas … […] paid in, and there is added […] […] for the heating of the bath of the gymnasium […] [… lines lost …] [verso] [… lines lost …]

The month Hadrianos is an honorific name for Choiak, which places the account in or after Hadrian's reign. The argyrotamias was the municipal treasurer.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Municipal Account). 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.17.2127

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

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