Painter's cost estimate for decorating the public baths of Oxyrhynchus TM 20358Oxyrhynchos

127 To Valerius Ammonianus also called Gerontius, logistes of the Oxyrhynchite nome, from Aurelius Artemidoros son of Arsinoos, of the glorious and most glorious city of the Oxyrhynchites, a painter by profession. Since your diligence requires the estimate of the parts needing painting in the public bath of the Trajanic Hadrianic thermae of the same city, which is happily under repair, I accordingly declare that there are needed, on account of the painting of the parts that need it, namely the two cold-water rooms and one plunge rotunda, and the man-high surfaces of the whole colonnade, the entrances and exits, and four side-rotundas of the outer colonnade, and the other parts: for the price of colours, [...] myriads of silver denarii; [...] for the painting of the whole work, one myriad of silver denarii; which I report. [...] In the consulship of Caecinius Sabinus and Vettius Rufinus, the most illustrious, [...]. I, Aurelius Artemidoros, have submitted this. I, Aurelius [...]on, wrote on his behalf since he is illiterate.