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Receipt of komarchs of Phobou for payment for tow delivered to the treasury TM 19269Phobou (Oxyrhynchites)5. Mai 314

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Receipt issued to the Oxyrhynchite strategos by two village headmen (komarchs) of Phobou, acknowledging payment from the public bank for tow (flax fibre) compulsorily purchased for the treasury and sent to Alexandria. The sums for several regnal years are given, minus a 6 1/2 percent deduction. Dated 5 May AD 314.

In English machine translation

To Aurelius Sarapion also called Serenos, strategos of the Oxyrhynchite nome, from the Aurelii Harpaesis son of Pathatres and Psenamounis son of Amatokos, both komarchs of the village of Phobou for the current year. We have received and been paid by Aurelius Aphthonios, banker of the public funds, by order […] […] which we asked to be ordered to be paid out to us for the price of the tow which we supplied to the treasury on the account of compulsory purchase, through Ariston the epimeletes, for transport to Alexandria: for year 20, 6 centenaria 5 1/3 minas, 6 talents 533 drachmas, of which the 6 1/2 percent makes 2,375 drachmas, the remainder 5 talents 4,158 drachmas; for year 7 and year 5 likewise 6 centenaria 5 1/3 minas, 6 talents 533 drachmas, of which the 6 1/2 percent makes 2,375 drachmas, the remainder 5 talents 4,158 drachmas; total 11 talents 2,316 drachmas in full. The receipt is valid, and in answer to the formal question we have agreed. In the consulship of Rufius Volusianus and Petronius Annianus, viri clarissimi, Pachon 10. We, the Aurelii Harpaesis and Psanamounis, have been paid the money in full as stated above. I, Aurelius Agathos, wrote on their behalf since they do not know letters. To Aurelius Sarapion also called Serenos, strategos of the Oxyrhynchite nome, from the Aurelii Theon […]

Synōnē was a compulsory purchase of goods by the state at fixed prices. The closing lines begin a second, unfinished copy of the address by different persons.

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

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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 5. Mai 314 · Phobou (Oxyrhynchites)

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