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Banker's receipts for gold payments of money taxes through a steward TM 20782Oxyrhynchos10. Jan. 535

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Three bank receipts from Oxyrhynchus for payments in gold of money taxes for the 13th indiction, made through Pamouthios, steward of Leon, and issued by the banker Philoxenos. The first is dated Tybi 15 (10 January AD 535); the verso note totals the three payments.

In English machine translation

[1, recto] † Paid through Pamouthios, steward (pronoetes) of Leon, on account of the money taxes of the thirteenth indiction, in the month of Tybi 15 of the same 13th indiction: of gold, on the private standard, excluding the weighing charge, eighty solidi less four hundred and forty carats; weighing charge forty carats; total of gold on the private standard including the weighing charge, 80 solidi less 480 carats only. Year 211/180, month of Tybi 15, indiction 13. Philoxenos, banker. † [1, verso] † Note of the banker for the 229 solidi less 1380 1/2 1/4 carats, including the weighing charge of the 2[…] (?). [2] […] excluding the weighing charge, sixty solidi less three hundred carats; weighing charge thirty carats; total including the weighing charge 60 solidi less 330 carats. [3] […] excluding the weighing charge, eighty-nine solidi less five hundred and twenty-eight and a quarter carats; weighing charge forty-four and a half carats; total including the weighing charge 89 solidi less 572 1/2 1/4 carats.

Sums are stated as solidi 'less' a number of carats, a way of expressing the deficit of light coins on the private weighing standard, with an extra weighing charge (rhope). The year 211/180 is the Oxyrhynchite era dating.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Tax - Receipts). 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 · 10. Jan. 535 · Oxyrhynchos

[1,r] † ἐδόθη διὰ Παμουθίου προνοητοῦ Λέοντος ἀπὸ λόγου ἀργυρικῶν τρεισκαιδεκάτης ἰνδικτίονος ἐπὶ μηνὸς Τῦβι ιε τῆς αὐτῆς ιγ ἰνδικτίονος χρυσοῦ ἰδιωτικῷ ζυγῷ ἐκτὸς ῥοπῆς νομισμάτια ὀγδοήκοντα παρὰ κεράτια τετρακόσια τεσσεράκοντα, ῥοπῆς κεράτια τεσσεράκοντα, γίνεται χρυσοῦ ἰδιωτικ…