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A bank payment record (diagraphe) from the bank of Herokrates at Herakleopolis, in which Ptolemaios, acting for Horos, prophet and overseer of temples, pays agents of Sarapion, the revenue official of the 'sacred tower', the price of 10 kapteres owed to the temple. The sum is 8 talents of bronze with an exchange charge of 134 drachmas; it dates to July 27 BC.
The meaning of 'kapteres' is uncertain; it is apparently some item or due owed to the temple. The 'exchange' (allage) is the surcharge for paying in bronze rather than silver.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Zahlung von Tempeleinkünften durch eine 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.
[1] ἔτους γ Ἐπὶφ β… ἐν Ἡρακλέους πόλει. διαγραφὴ διὰ τῆς Ἡροκράτους τραπέζης. Πτολεμαῖος ὁ παρʼ Ὥρου προφήτου καὶ ἐπιστάτου ἱερῶν Προίτωι καὶ Μαρσύαι τοῖς παρὰ Σαραπίωνος τοῦ ἐπὶ τῶν προσόδων τοῦ ἱεροῦ πύργου τιμὴν ι καπτέρων τῶν καθηκόντων τῷ ἱερῷ τελεῖσθαι ἐκ τοῦ ἐν Ἡρακλέους π…
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