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Draft instruction to a bank to accept a payment from Phareitis and Dionysios, the lessees of the bath at Philadelphia, toward their rent for year 37, and to credit it to the account of Apollonios, paying out expenses from it as instructed. Below are notes of sums in silver and bronze connected with the oikonomos Sostratos and with Etearchos.
A diagraphe is a bank payment order; the amounts in the first entry were left blank. One record dates the text to December 249 BC, another to 2 January 248 BC (Hathyr 11 of year 37 of Ptolemy II).
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Dictation of a Notification for Deposit in a Bank). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
Notification to a bank to accept a payment owing to Apollonios from Phareitis and Dionysios, holders of the lease of the bath at Philadelphia; underneath there is a note concerning a payment from the oikonomos which has no connection with the "diagraphe" above
δέξαι τὴν ὑποκειμένην διαγραφὴν καὶ ἔμβαλε εἰς τὸν Ἀπολλωνίου λόγον, λῆμμα ἀργυρίου χαλκοῦ ἀπὸ τούτου χρημάτισον κατὰ τὰ ἐπεσταλμένα σοι ἀνηλώματα. ἐν τῶι αὐτῶι συμβόλωι. Φαρήιτις καὶ Διονύσιος, οἱ ἐξειληφότες τὸ ἐν Φιλαδελφείαι βαλανεῖον, εἰς τὸν φόρον τοῦ λζ ἔτους τοῦ Ἁθὺρ ια. …
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