Request for payment for work on a colonnaded street at Oxyrhynchus TM 20717Oxyrhynchos7. Apr. 283

To Aurelius Apollonios also called Dionysios, former hypomnematographos and however he is styled, ex-gymnasiarch, councillor, prytanis in office of the glorious and most glorious city of the Oxyrhynchites, also administering the civic affairs, from Aurelius Menestheus and Aurelius Nemesianus, both sons of Dionysios, from the same glorious city of the Oxyrhynchites, Kasiotai. We request that instructions be sent for payment to us from the city's account, for the wages for the Kasiotic work we have done on the colonnaded street constructed by you from the main gateway of the gymnasium southward as far as the lane of Hierakion, on both sides, the total of the wages for the whole work, in accordance with what was voted in the most excellent council, 4 talents and 4,000 drachmas of silver of the coinage of the Augusti, total 4 talents 4,000 drachmas; and we ask you to instruct the treasurer of the civic funds to make the payment to us as is customary. Year 1 of Imperator Caesar Marcus Aurelius Carus and Marcus Aurelius Carinus, Germanici Maximi, and Marcus Aurelius Numerianus, the most illustrious Caesars, Pii Felices Augusti, Pharmouthi 12. [Aurelius] Menestheus: I have received with my brother the 4 talents and 4,000 drachmas of silver. [Aurelius Ne]mesis: I have received jointly.