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Draft receipt for salary paid by collectors of grain dues TM 20645Oxyrhynchos190 - 191

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A draft receipt, with several deletions, in which a clerk acknowledges receiving 400 silver drachmas as salary from Neilos and his colleague, collectors of grain dues, for keeping the registers relating to rents from Talao near Sinary for the produce of year 30. It comes from Oxyrhynchus, AD 190-191.

In English machine translation

To Neilos, styled as son of his mother Soeris, and to his fellow collector of grain dues, ⟦greetings. I have received from you⟧ owing on account of also the rents of those in Talao ⟦holding⟧ near Sinary, from the produce of the past year 30, greetings. I have received from you as salary 400 silver drachmas, the registration of the books being my responsibility ⟦and of the collection⟧ ⟦which I have made for the requirements on behalf of the (holding) of the 1st in Talao near Sinary, being⟧ ⟦your responsibility⟧.

The text is a rough draft with many deleted phrases, so the wording of the opening lines is awkward. Year 30 refers to the reign of Commodus (AD 189/190).

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 Salary). 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.oxy.3.514

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 190 - 191 · Oxyrhynchos

Νείλῳ χρηματίζοντι μητρὸς Σοήριος καὶ τῷ σὺν αὐτῷ ἀπαιτητῇ σιτικῶν ὀφειλόντων ὑπὲρ καὶ φόρων τῶν ἐν Ταλαὼ περὶ Σιναρὺ γενήματος τοῦ διελθόντος λ ἔτους χαίρειν. ἔσχον παρʼ ὑμῶν ὑπὲρ ὀψωνίου ἀργυρίου δραχμὰς υ, τοῦ καταχωρισμοῦ τῶν βιβλίων ὄντος πρὸς ἐμὲ