Receipt
Receipt for 3 solidi on account of dues of barley for the 12th indiction. Practically complete. On the verso a much effaced endorsement.
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 21808
Receipt for gold solidi paid on account of barley dues TM 21808OxyrhynchusA.D. 399
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A receipt issued by Petros, an assistant, to the landowner Valerianus, acknowledging payment of 3 gold solidi from "the lady" on account of barley dues for the 13th indiction, to be credited in Valerianus' name. It was written at Oxyrhynchus on 8 November 399.
In English machine translation
[recto]
To my lord the landowner Valerianus, Petros, assistant. I have received from the lady, on account of barley of the 13th year of the indiction, three gold solidi, total 3 solidi, on condition that I credit these to you in your name for the same 13th indiction, the account being made. Year 76, year 45, Choiak 11.
I, Petros, assistant, agree to three gold solidi only.
[verso]
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The museum description says the 12th indiction, but the text clearly reads the 13th. The date uses the Oxyrhynchite era years 76 and 45; the verso endorsement is effaced and not transcribed.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Receipt for Dues). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
p.oxy.10.1329
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