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Payment order and receipt for donkey-drivers supplying chaff to gymnasium baths TM 19631Hermopolis (?)6. Nov. 118

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A payment order addressed to Epagathos instructing him to pay 64 drachmas to three donkey-drivers, Phibis, the son of Dioskoros and a third man, as their wages for Hathyr for carrying chaff to the furnaces of the gymnasium baths. Below it the drivers acknowledge receipt, through Theon son of Galates writing for them because they were illiterate. Dated 6 November AD 118, probably at Hermopolis.

In English machine translation

[…] to Epagathos […] greetings. Pay to Phibis and […] son of Dioskoros and […], the 3 donkey-drivers who carry chaff to the furnaces of the baths in the gymnasium and do the other things according to the lease, as they were instructed on another occasion also, for wages for the month of Hathyr, for so many (men) and their donkeys, sixty-four drachmas, total 64 drachmas, and receive a written receipt from them. Year 3 of Imperator Caesar Trajan Hadrian Augustus, Hathyr 10. […] […] […] Phibis and […] son of Dioskoros and […]: we have received the aforesaid sixty-four drachmas of silver, total 64 drachmas, as stated above. Year 3 of Imperator Caesar Trajan Hadrian Augustus, Hathyr 11. I, Theon son of Galates, wrote on their behalf since they do not know letters.

The order is dated Hathyr 10 and the drivers' receipt Hathyr 11; the chaff was fuel for the hypocaust furnaces heating the baths. The provenance at Hermopolis is not certain.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Ein Scheck für drei Eseltreiber). 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 · 6. Nov. 118 · Hermopolis (?)

[…]ν Ἐπαγάθωι[…] […] χαίρειν. χρημάτισον Φίβι καὶ[…]…[…]ωι Διοσκόρου καὶ[…]…[…]…[…] τοῖς γ ὀνηλάταις μεταφέρουσι ἄχυρον εἰς τὰ ὑποκαυστήρια τῶν ἐν τῶι γυμνασίῳ βαλανείων καὶ τὰ ἄλλα ποιοῦσι τὰ κατὰ τὴν μίσθωσιν, καθὼς καὶ ἄλλοτε ἐπεστάλησαν, ὑπὲρ ὀψωνίου μηνὸς Ἁθύρ, ὑπὲρ τοσούτων…