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An order for payment issued by or to a certain Makrobios, authorizing 700 myriads of denarii (7,000,000 denarii) for the price of a piglet. It was written at Oxyrhynchus on 21 May 444.
The date uses the Oxyrhynchite era (years 120 and 89) together with the indiction. The huge sum reflects the severe inflation of the late Roman denarius of account.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Order for Payment). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
[… ? lines lost …] Μακρόβιος […] παράσχου εἰς καλὴν χρείαν […] καὶ ὑπὲρ τιμῆς δελφακίου ἀργυρίου μυριάδας […]υμφο…[…] ἑπτακοσίας γίνονται ὁμοῦ δηναρίων μυριάδες ψ μόναι. ἔτους ρκ πθ, ιβ ἰνδικτίονος, Παχὼν κϛ. σεσημείωμαι ἀργυρίου δηναρίων μυριάδας ἑπτακοσίας μόνας.
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