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Order to pay an agent for oil, pitch, honey and meat TM 22004Oxyrhynchos1. Juli 390

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An order from Limenios to his assistant Athanasios to pay the agent Bassos in gold solidi and denarii for oil, liquid pitch, honey and meat. It was written at Oxyrhynchus on 1 July 390.

In English machine translation

[recto, column 1] [… 9 lines lost …] [recto, column 2] [… 5 lines lost …] [verso] Limenios to Athanasios, assistant, greetings. Pay to Bassos, agent, for the price of 80 xestai of good oil, 2 solidi [of gold], and for 6 jars of liquid pitch at [300 myriads of denarii] each, [1,800 myriads of denarii, and] for the price of 25 xestai of honey, 1 solidus of gold, [and for] 3 1/2 pounds [of meat], 105 myriads of denarii; total 3 solidi and 1,905 myriads of denarii only. I have signed […] […] Year 66/35, Epeiph 7.

The year 66/35 follows the Oxyrhynchite era count. The figures for the pitch are partly restored from the total.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Order for Payment of Money). 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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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 1. Juli 390 · Oxyrhynchos

[r,1] [… 9 lines lost …] [r,2] [… 5 lines lost …] [v] Λιμένιος Ἀθανασίῳ βοηθῷ χαίρειν. παρασχοῦ Βάσσῳ πραγματευτῇ ὑπὲρ τιμῆς ἐλαίου χρηστοῦ ξεστῶν ὀγδοήκοντα χρυσοῦ νομισμάτια δύο , καὶ ὑπὲρ πίσσης ὑγρᾶς ἀγγίων ἓξ ἑκάστου ἐκ δηναρίων μυριάδων τ δηναρίων μυριάδας Αω, καὶ ὑπὲρ τιμῆ…