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Receipt for the price of wine sold to the Apion estate by villagers of Apsempsis TM 17935Oxyrhynchos12. Febr. 611

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A receipt in which six villagers of Apsempsis in the Upper Kynopolite nome acknowledge full payment from Flavius Georgios, administrator of the estate of the patrician Apion, for 200 Samian jars of wine from the 14th indiction harvest. It was drawn up at Oxyrhynchus on 12 February 611, in the first year of Heraclius.

In English machine translation

[recto] […] † In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, God and Saviour. In the reign of our most divine and most pious lord Flavius Heraclius, eternal Augustus and Imperator, year one, Mecheir 18, indiction 14. To Flavius Georgios, most illustrious administrator of the glorious house of the all-renowned patrician Apion, (citizen) of this city of the Upper Kynopolites by paternal descent from the late (?) [...], from the illustrious city of the Oxyrhynchites, the Aurelii Makaris, the headman (meizon), son of Ieremias, mother Maria, and Ioannes son of Origenes, mother Maria, and Menas son of Anoup, mother Martyria, and Abraham son of Phounsios, mother Rebekka, and Menas son of Georgios, mother Sophia, and Origenes son of Stephanos, mother Rebekka, all from the village of Apsempsis in the Upper Kynopolite nome, greetings. We acknowledge that we have received, been paid and been satisfied by your Illustriousness the price of the wine sold to it by us, down to a single obol, that is 200 Samian jars of wine from the produce of the present fourteenth indiction, down to a single obol, that is 200 Samian jars of wine. We acknowledge that henceforth we have no claim against your Magnificence, because we have received, been paid and been satisfied by it the price of the wine sold to it by us, down to a single obol. And as proof of the payment of the price of the said wine we have issued to it this receipt of full payment, which […], and having been asked the formal question we gave our assent. Total: year 287 256, indiction 14. We, the Aurelii Makaris the headman and Ioannes and Menas and Abraham and Menas and Origenes, the aforementioned […] […] […] […] [verso] † Receipt of the men from Apsempsis in the Upper Kynopolite nome.

The 'Samian' is a standard wine jar measure; the double era date (287/256) uses the Oxyrhynchite city eras. The 'meizon' was a village headman.

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

p.oxy.58.3954

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 12. Febr. 611 · Oxyrhynchos

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