Order
Order addressed to Ioannes, hypodectes of Aphrodito, to pay to the soldier Hadrian 2 nomismata less 2 keratia, debited from the receipts of the 2nd indiction. Belongs to the archive of Dioscoros.
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 19008
Order to the receiver Ioannes to pay the soldier Hadrian TM 19008Aphrodites kome (Antaiopolites)AD 523
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An order addressed to Ioannes, the tax receiver at Aphrodito, to pay the soldier Hadrian 2 gold solidi less 2 carats from the tax receipts of the second indiction. It is endorsed by the village headman Bottos and by Charisios and Apollos, and belongs to the archive of Dioscoros.
In English machine translation
[recto]
Payment order to Ioannes the receiver:
Pay out of your receipts of the tax assessment (kanon) of the second indiction to Hadrian the soldier 2 gold solidi less 2 carats by the goldsmiths' standard. Total: 2 gold solidi less 2 carats by the goldsmiths' standard.
Phaophi 24, indiction 2.
I, Bottos, chief of the village, agree.
I, Charisios, agree.
I, Apollos, agree.
[verso]
[…] of the 2nd indiction, 2 solidi less 2 (carats) by the goldsmiths' standard, to Hadrian.
The hypodektes was the official receiving tax payments; 'by the goldsmiths' standard' (chrysochoikon) refers to a weight standard for reckoning carats deducted from the solidus.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Ordre). 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.cair.masp.1.67052
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