Receipt
Acknowledgement of the receipt of various sums of money which were to be taken to Alexandria. The document has been crossed out, showing that the contract had been fulfilled.
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 20785
Receipt for gold revenues to be transported to Alexandria TM 20785OxyrhynchusA.D. 580
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A receipt and deposit acknowledgement in which a man (his name lost) confirms receiving 2,205 gold solidi of revenue from a magnate through his banker Ioannes, and undertakes to carry the gold to Alexandria, pay it to two money-dealers, and bring back confirmation from the agent Theodoros. Dated 22 November 580, probably from the Oxyrhynchite region; the whole text was crossed out once the obligation was fulfilled.
In English machine translation
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of the (city) of Herakles (?). I have received from your Magnificence through Ioannes your most esteemed banker, on account of revenues of the third instalment of the thirteenth indiction, in gold of refined (obryzon) coinage, 1,440 solidi, and in standard Egyptian coinage on the Alexandrian weight 720 solidi, and for the refining and the restoration charges on them 45 solidi, total 2,205 gold solidi. And these I am ready to convey down to Alexandria, barring act of God and the dangers and mishaps of the river, and to pay them to Ioannes and Symeonios the most illustrious money-dealers, and to bring a letter from the most illustrious apokrisiarios Theodoros that the said gold has been paid in full. And for your security, that is, of the same most esteemed banker, I have made this deposit acknowledgement written in my own hand, in the month Hathyr 26 of the 14th indiction. † In the reign of our most divine and most pious master Flavius Tiberius Constantinus, eternal Augustus and Imperator, year 6, after the second consulship of his Majesty. †
An apokrisiarios was an agent or representative of a great household; 'obryzon' denotes refined, full-standard gold. The cancellation of the entire text shows the delivery was completed..
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Receipt). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.