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Payment through the banker Makarios for symmachoi travelling to Alexandria TM 21712Oxyrhynchos28. Sept. - 27. Okt. 612

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A payment record from Oxyrhynchus noting that the banker Makarios paid a sum in gold (two-thirds of a solidus less 2 3/4 carats) for the expenses of symmachoi travelling to Alexandria with the cancellarius Moschos. It dates to Phaophi of the first indiction, AD 612.

In English machine translation

† Paid through the most esteemed Makarios, banker, to the symmachoi of the Lower Toparchy (?) going to Alexandria with Moschos the most admirable cancellarius, on account of expenses for the month of Phaophi of the first indiction: gold, on the private standard, two-thirds of a solidus less two and a half and a quarter carats, total in gold on the private standard [2/3 solidus] less 2 3/4 carats only. † Total 2/3 solidus less 2 3/4 carats. Year 289 and 258, month of Phaophi, first indiction. †

Symmachoi were armed couriers or guards in late antique estate and civic service; 'katomeritai' probably refers to the lower district (Kato meris) of the nome. The year is given in the Oxyrhynchite eras (289 and 258).

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.2.158

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

† ἐδόθη διὰ τοῦ εὐδοκιμωτάτου Μακαρίου τραπεζίτου τοῖς συμμάχοις κατωμερίταις ἀπερχομένοις ἐν Ἀλεξανδρείᾳ μετὰ Μόσχου τοῦ περιβλέπτου καγκελλαρίου λόγῳ ἀναλώματος ἐπὶ μηνὶ Φαῶφι ἰνδικτίωνος πρώτης χρυσοῦ ἰδιωτικῷ νομίσματος δίμοιρον παρὰ κεράτια δύο ἥμισυ τέταρτον, γίνεται χρυσοῦ…