One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 17759

Fragmentary receipts for wheat and debts owed TM 17759Panopolis13. Nov. 184

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Fragmentary remains of several receipts or acknowledgements of payment, apparently copied together, from Panopolis in the reign of Commodus. They involve village elders, a certain Pylades son of Zoilos, and payments or shares of wheat and sums owed, with notes of hand mentioned; one entry is dated Hathyr 17 (13 November 184).

In English machine translation

[…] … [the] … (?) […] […] as aforesaid … […] […] … of the … […] […] … of Peteursis … […] […] [of Imperator Cae]sar Marcus Au[relius] […] […] Hathyr 17. Me… […] […] we … the […] […] … son (?) of Me[…] […] […] [I wrote on their behalf] because they do not know letters […] […] …aras son of Psachis, elder […] […] … and of Pasros son of Pa[…] […] […] greeting. E…yzes received […] […] elder, son of Haronnophris […] […] … from you one share … […] […] … of wheat from the heap … […] […] [for]ty and a half, a qu[arter] (?) […] […] husband, Pylades son of Zoilos […] […] [I have rece]ived from you the [amounts] ow[ed] […] […] … and of wheat […] […] notes of hand which … […] […] of the amounts owed […] […] one hundred […] […] … Pyla[des] […] […] [of Commod]us Anto[ninus] […]

One record dates the text more broadly to AD 184-185. The 'elders' (presbyteroi) were likely village officials rather than simply old men.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below. It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.

cpr.17B.8

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 13. Nov. 184 · Panopolis

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