Three copies of a receipt in which an Aurelius, a former magistrate and councillor, acknowledges payment from the nome's public bankers for 15 grams of gold he supplied to three curators on the order of the governor Sossianus Hierocles. The price, fixed by imperial law, was 5 talents 1,245 drachmas of silver. Dated May 310.
In English machine translation
[A]
[…]
[…] I supplied
[of gold by order] of the most eminent Sossianus Hierocles for the 4th tax-period,
[delivered to Kyrillos] the curator, [6] grams, [to Dioskoros] the curator, 6 grams, to Sarapammon [the curator] 3 grams, total 15 grams, the amount collected according to the divine law: 5 talents 1,245 drachmas of silver.
This receipt I have issued to you in five copies, and to the bankers in a single copy, and having been asked the formal question I gave my assent.
In the consulship of [Tatius Andronikos and Pompeius Probus], the most illustrious
[…]
[B]
[…]
[…] I have been paid
[by the bankers of the public funds of the nome, on] your [order], the price of the gold which I supplied by order of the most eminent Sossianus Hierocles for the 4th tax-period,
[delivered to Kyrillos] the curator, [6 grams, to Dioskoros] the curator, 6 grams, to Sarapammon the curator 3 grams, total 15 grams, the amount collected according to the divine law: 5 talents 1,245 drachmas of silver.
This receipt I have issued to you in five copies, and to the bankers in a single copy, and having been asked the formal question I gave my assent.
In the consulship of Tatius Andronikos and Pompeius Probus, the most illustrious prefects, Pachon 2[…].
[I, Aurelius …], have been paid [as stated above.]
[C]
To Aurelius […]
from Aurelius […], former magistrate, councillor […]. [I have been paid]
by the bankers of the public funds of the nome, on your order, the price of the gold which I supplied by order of the most eminent Sossianus Hierocles for the 4th tax-period,
delivered to Kyrillos the curator 6 grams, to Dioskoros the curator 6 grams, to Sarapammon the curator 3 grams, the amount collected: 5 talents 1,245 drachmas of silver. This receipt I have issued to you in five copies, and to the bankers in a single copy, and having been asked the formal question I gave my assent.
In the consulship of Tatius [Andronikos and Pompeius] Probus, the most illustrious [prefects, Pachon 2…].
I, Aurelius […], [have been paid as stated above.]
The gold was compulsorily purchased by the state at a price set by imperial law (the 'divine law'). The Greek 'gramma' is a small weight unit (about 1.1 g), rendered here as 'grams'; the number of copies (5) is read from the numeral ε.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Quittungen über den Erhalt der Vergütung für vom Staat aufgekauftes Gold). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.