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A request from the guild of coppersmiths of Oxyrhynchus to the city's prytanis, Aurelius Apollonios also called Dionysios, asking that the civic treasurer pay them for copper work supplied for the repair of a public bath. The total price was 1 talent 5,400 drachmas.
The prytanis was the presiding magistrate of the city council; the hypomnematographos was a high Alexandrian official. The material and item supplied are lost in the gaps, though the weight of 14 minas suggests metal fittings.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Richiesta di pagamento da parte della corporazione τῶν χαλκέων). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
[r] Αὐρηλίῳ Ἀπολλωνίῳ τῷ καὶ Διονυσίῳ γενομένῳ ὑπομνηματογράφῳ τῆς λαμπροτάτης πόλεως τῶν Ἀλεξανδρέων γυμνασιαρχήσαντι βουλευτῇ καὶ ὡς χρηματίζει τῆς λαμπρᾶς καὶ λαμπροτάτης Ὀξυρυγχιτῶν πόλεως ἐνάρχῳ πρυτάνει. παρὰ τοῦ κοινοῦ τῶν χαλκέων τῆς λαμπρᾶς καὶ λαμπροτάτης Ὀξυρυγκιτῶν πό…
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