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Receipt in which Horion son of Aphrodisios and his fellow overseers of certain estate building plots in the metropolis acknowledge receiving from their partner Dios son of Zeuxis his share of the expenses of their supervision. It was written at Tebtynis in the Arsinoite nome in AD 148.
An epiteresis was a liturgical supervision of state revenues or properties, here of plots belonging to the ousiac (former private estate) land. The museum description calls the recipient Kainonos, apparently misreading the Greek koinonoi, 'partner'; his name is Dios son of Zeuxis.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Receipt for Part of the Expenses of an ἐπιτήρησις). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
Horion and his associate epit�r�tai acknowledge receipt from Kainonos of his share of the expenses of the epit�r�sis. Kainonos must therefore have been one of the epit�r�tai himself. The reason why this receipt was issued him by his colleagues is not entirely clear. The papyrus w…
Ὡρίων Ἀφροδισίου καὶ οἱ μέτοχοι ἐπιτηρηταὶ οὐσιακῶν ἐνίων οἰκοπέδων μητροπόλεως Δίῳ Ζεύξιδος κοινωνῶι πλεῖστον χαίρειν· ἀπέχομεν παρὰ σοῦ τὰ γενόμενα δαπανήματα πρὸς τὴν ἐπιτήρησιν τὴν μέχρι τοῦ ἐνεστῶτος ἑνδακάτου ἔτους καὶ αὐτοῦ τοῦ … κατὰ τὸ ἐ πίβαλλον σοι μέρος ὑπὲρ παντὸς λό…
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