Receipt
Receipt showing that the banker Anastasius has paid 1 solidus less 4 keratia 'for an embrocation needed by the horses of the public circus on the side of the Greens', and 1/3 solidus less 1 1/2 keratia for expenses.
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Receipt for embrocations for the horses of the Green circus faction TM 20786OxyrhynchusA.D. 552
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A receipt recording payment through the banker Anastasios for embrocations bought for the horses of the Green faction of the public circus, plus expenses. It was issued at Oxyrhynchus on 15 March 552.
In English machine translation
[recto]
† Paid through the most illustrious Anastasios, banker, for the price of embrocations (?) purchased for the use of the horses of the public circus, of the Green faction, in the fifteenth indiction, 1st strategia: one solidus less four carats; and for expenses, one third of a solidus less one and a half carats; total in gold on the private standard 1 1/3 solidi less 5 1/2 carats only. Total one and one third solidi less 5 1/2 carats only, on the private standard.
Year 228 = 197, Phamenoth 19, fifteenth indiction.
[verso]
† Note of the price of embrocation purchased and of expenses: 1 1/3 solidi less 5 1/2 (carats).
The Greens were one of the circus factions that organized chariot racing; the double year figures are the Oxyrhynchite era years. A malagma is a soothing poultice or embrocation, here for horses.
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.
p.oxy.1.145
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