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Receipt of a wool-worker for two gold solidi deposited with a craftsman TM 20088Herakleopolis28. Okt. - 26. Nov. 376

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A receipt from Herakleopolis, dated to the month Hathyr in AD 376, in which a wool-worker, son of Kastalios, acknowledges that a craftsman, son of Apollonios, has paid out on his instruction two gold solidi he had deposited with him. The wool-worker renounces any further claim against the craftsman.

In English machine translation

[recto] In the consulship of our masters Valens for the 5th time and Valentinian the Younger, the eternal Augusti, Hathyr […], in Herakleopolis […] Aurelius […]yses son of Kastalios, his mother being Sarapias, living in Herakleopolis, wool-worker, to Aurelius […] son of Apollonios, from the same city, craftsman, greetings. Since before this I deposited with you […] two genuine single gold solidi, total 2 solidi, and you handed these over to […] Apollonios according to my instruction, for which I also received a written note from him, accordingly I acknowledge that from now on I have no claim against you, nor will I proceed against you or bring charges on account of these matters, and that this receipt shall be for your security. [verso] Receipt […] on account of Kastalios, wool-worker

The coins are described as 'single' (haploa) solidi, the standard gold coin of the period. The wool-worker's own name is lost; on the verso his father's name Kastalios appears with the trade title.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Eine Quittung). 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 · 28. Okt. - 26. Nov. 376 · Herakleopolis

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