Order from a prytanis
Order from a prytanis to a banker to pay three attendants of the public bath their monthly wage, amounting in all to 1 talent.
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Order from the prytanis to a banker to pay bath attendants' wages TM 21882OxyrhynchusA.D. 309
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An order from the prytanis (president of the town council) to the banker Apollonios to pay three attendants of the public bath, Harpalos, Chous and Telones, their wages for the month of Pachon, 1 talent of silver in total. It was written at Oxyrhynchus in June AD 309.
In English machine translation
From the prytanis to Apollonios, banker, greetings.
Pay to Harpalos and Chous and Telones, bath attendants of the public bath, for their wages from the 1st to the 30th of Pachon, 1 talent of silver, total 1 talent.
I have signed: 1 talent, 1 talent.
Year 17 and year 5, Pauni 11.
The parachytai were bath attendants who poured water over bathers; the double regnal year (17 and 5) reflects joint reigning emperors.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Order from a Prytanis to a Banker). 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.12.1499
παρὰ τοῦ πρυτάνεως Ἀπολλωνίῳ τραπεζίτῃ χαίρειν. δὸς Ἁρπάλῳ καὶ Χωοῦτι καὶ Τελώνῃ παραχύταις δημοσίου βαλανείου ὑπὲρ μισθῶν τῶν ἀπὸ α ἕως λ Παχὼν ἀργυρίου τάλαντον ἕν, γίνεται τάλαντον α. σεσημείωμαι τάλαντον ἕν, τάλαντον α. ιζ ἔτους καὶ ε ἔτους Παῦνι ια.