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Receipt for the transport charge of statues sent to Alexandria TM 20291Kellis (Oasis Magna)331

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A receipt issued by Aurelius Nikantinoos, a tax receiver, acknowledging that Gelasios, a former logistes (city financial official), paid through an agent Rhiraus 9 talents of silver for the cost of shipping statues to Alexandria. It dates to AD 331 and was found at Kellis in the Dakhla Oasis; the docket links the statues to Trimithis.

In English machine translation

[recto] In the year after the consulship of Flavius Gallicanus and Aurelius Symmachus, the most illustrious. Gelasios, former logistes, has paid through Rhiraus, for the transport charge of statues being sent to Alexandria, nine talents of silver in tetrachrysic coinage, total 9 talents. I, Aurelius Nikantinoos, receiver, wrote the receipt. [verso] [Receipt for the transport charge] of the statues of Trimithis […] written by Nikantinoos

The phrase 'in tetrachrysic coinage' refers to a reckoning standard of the early 4th-century currency with no exact English equivalent. The consuls Gallicanus and Symmachus held office in 330, so the post-consular date gives 331.

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

DDbDP-text Full record →

p.kellis.1.29

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 331 · Kellis (Oasis Magna)

[r] μετὰ τὴν ὑπατείαν Φλαυίου Γαλλικανοῦ καὶ Αὐρηλίου Συμμάχου τῶν λαπροτάτων. διέγραψεν Γελάσιος ἀπὸ λογιστῶν διὰ Ῥιραῦτος ὑπὲρ φορέτρου ἀνδρειάντων ἀποστελλομένων εἰς Ἀλεξάνδρειαν ἀργυρίου ἐν τετραχρύσῳ νομίσματι τάλαντα ἐννέα, γίνεται τάλαντα θ. ἔγραψα τὴν ἀποχὴν Αὐρήλιος Νικα…