Receipt
Receipt showing that Georgius, a secretary, had paid 10 5/8 carats on the Alexandrian standard to two starters employed at the hippodrome on the side of the 'Blues' (Veneti) as their wages for the month.
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Receipt for monthly wages of two starters of the Blue faction TM 20793OxyrhynchusA.D. 618
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A receipt recording that Georgios, a chartularius (secretary), paid 10 5/8 carats of gold on the Alexandrian standard to two starters who looked after the horses of the Blue circus faction, as their wages for the month Mecheir. It was issued at Oxyrhynchus in AD 618.
In English machine translation
† Paid through the most illustrious Georgios, chartularius, to the 2 starters attending the horses of the hippodrome faction of the Blues, for the monthly wages of the month Mecheir of the 6th indiction, of Alexandrian gold, ten and a half and an eighth carats, total of Alexandrian gold 10 1/2 1/8 carats only.
Year 294 and 263, Phamenoth 5, sixth indiction. †
The Blues (Veneti) were one of the circus factions that ran chariot racing; the date uses the Oxyrhynchite era years 294 and 263. The 'starters' (aphetai) released the horses at the start of races.
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.1.152
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