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An order for payment addressed to the banker Aurelius Sarapion, instructing him to pay 10 talents of silver in the new coinage to Aurelius Ophellios, exegetes of Oxyrhynchus, in return for money the writer had received from him at Hermopolis. It dates to the month Tybi of year 3 of the emperor Probus (late December 277 to January 278) and comes from Oxyrhynchus.
The document works like a cheque or bill of exchange: money received in Hermopolis is repaid through a bank in the Oxyrhynchite nome. The final line, with the word read as 'epiz' before the clerk's name, is obscure; a diastoleus was a bank or archive official who checked and recorded transactions.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Zahlungsanweisung). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
[… ? lines lost …] […]Αὐρηλίῳ Σαραπίωνι τραπεζίτῃ χαίρειν. καλῶς ποιήσεις μεταβαλὼν τῷ παρὰ σοὶ ἐν Ὀξυρυγχίτῃ Αὐρηλίῳ Ὀφελλίῳ ἐξηγητῇ Ὀξυρυγχιτῶν ἀνθʼ ὧν ἔσχον παρʼ αὐτοῦ ἐν Ἑρμουπόλει ἀργυρίου καινοῦ νομίσματος ταλάντων δέκα, τάλαντα ι, τὰ ἴσα τοῦ ἀργυρίου τάλαντα δέκα πλήρης ἀρ…
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