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Payment of two solidi to a servant travelling to Alexandria with tax gold TM 21711Oxyrhynchos28. Sept. - 27. Okt. 612

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A short record of payment from Oxyrhynchus, AD 612. Through the banker Makarios, two Alexandrian gold solidi were given to a servant, Aritha, who was travelling to Alexandria with his master and with the gold of the tax payment.

In English machine translation

† Paid through the most esteemed Makarios, banker, to Aritha (?), servant, departing for Alexandria with the same illustrious man and with the gold of the tax installment, in the month of Phaophi of the first indiction: two solidi of Alexandrian gold, total 2 solidi of Alexandrian gold only. † Total 2 Alexandrian solidi. † Year 289 and 258, month of Phaophi, first indiction. †

The double year (289 and 258) follows the Oxyrhynchite eras counted from Constantius and Julian. The katabolē was the installment of tax delivered in gold, here being taken to Alexandria.

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.

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p.amh.2.157

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 28. Sept. - 27. Okt. 612 · Oxyrhynchos

† ἐδόθη διὰ τοῦ εὐδοκιμωτάτου Μακαρίου τραπεζίτου Ἀρίθᾳ παιδίῳ ἀπερχομένῳ ἐν Ἀλεξανδρείᾳ μετὰ τοῦ αὐτοῦ περιβλέπτου ἀνδρὸς καὶ τοῦ χρυσίου τῆς καταβολῆς ἐπὶ μηνὶ Φαῶφι ἰνδικτίωνος πρώτης χρυσοῦ Ἀλεξανδρείας νομίσματα δύο, γίνονται χρυσοῦ Ἀλεξανδρείας νομίσματα β μόνα. † γίνεται Ἀ…