An order addressed to Ioannes, the receiver of public taxes, instructing him to pay out sums from the tax receipts of the second indiction: money to Horigenes, expenses at Antinoopolis, and payments for eggs and wool, totalling 10 solidi 3 1/2 carats. It was signed by Apollos and endorsed by Bottos at Aphrodite in September 538.
In English machine translation
Payment order to Ioannes, receiver:
From your receipts of the public taxes of the assessment of the second indiction: to the lord Horigenes, 6 solidi of gold, 3 carats.
And for expenses at Antinoopolis concerning the modius, with small change, 3 solidi, […]ranos and Stephanos.
And for eggs, 14 carats.
And for wool, to Victor son of Tachymia (?), 10 1/2 carats. Total together 10 solidi 3 1/2 carats,
10 solidi, 3 1/2 carats.
Thoth 4, 2nd indiction.
I, Apollos, have signed […]. Bottos: I agree.
The katabole here is a payment order drawn on tax revenues; the solidus (nomisma) was divided into 24 carats (keratia). The reading of Victor's patronymic "Tachymia" is uncertain.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Au recto, fragment). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.