Receipt
Receipt showing that Macarius, a banker, had paid 3 solidi less 12 carats to some boatmen who were to go to Alexandria and convey an advocate back to Oxyrhynchus.
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Receipt for payment to sailors fetching the Rhetor from Alexandria TM 20792OxyrhynchusA.D. 612
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A receipt recording that the banker Makarios paid 3 gold solidi less 12 carats to the sailors of boats going to Alexandria to bring back an official called the Rhetor. It was written at Oxyrhynchus in the month of Phaophi of the first indiction, AD 612.
In English machine translation
[recto]
Paid through the most illustrious Makarios, banker, to the sailors of the boats going to Alexandria to the most glorious Rhetor, who is to sail up in them, on account of expenses, in the month of Phaophi of the first indiction: 3 gold solidi on the private standard less 12 carats, total 3 gold solidi on the private standard less 12 carats only.
Year 289 and 258, month of Phaophi, first indiction. † Total on the private standard 3 solidi less 12 carats. †
[verso]
† To the sailors of the boats, Phaophi, 3 solidi less 12.
"Rhetor" may be a personal name or the title of an advocate; the double year (289 and 258) follows the Oxyrhynchite eras. The "private standard" (idiotikon) was a local weighing standard for gold coin.
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.1.151
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