Receipt for a payment to summachoi
Receipt for payments issued through the chartoularios Georgios.
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 22036
Receipt for payment to messengers travelling to Alexandria TM 22036Oxyrhynchos20th March, AD 618
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A receipt recording a customary payment of 1,016 units of small coin (equal to 7 1/2 gold carats) made through Georgios, a rent-collector, to estate messengers travelling to Alexandria with the estate's cellarer. It was issued at Oxyrhynchus on 20 March 618.
In English machine translation
† Given through Georgios, rent-collector, to the messengers (symmachoi) of the chief messengers (archisymmachoi) going off to Alexandria with the estate's cellarer, in accordance with custom, also in the 6th indiction, in small coin 1,016, in small coin 1,016 only, for 7 1/2 carats of gold on the Alexandrian standard, total 7 1/2 carats only. Given in year 294 and 263, month Phamenoth 26, sixth indiction. †
Given through the most illustrious Georgios, chartularius. †
The symmachoi were messengers or couriers in the service of a large estate (here probably the Apion household); the double year date follows the Oxyrhynchite era reckoning. The kellarios was the estate official in charge of stores.
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 a Payment to σύμμαχοι). 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.16.1904
[ctr] † ἐδόθη διὰ Γεωργίου ἐνοικιολόγου συμμάχοις τῶν ἀρχισυμμάχων ἀπερχομένοις ἐν Ἀλεξανδρείᾳ μετὰ τοῦ γεουχικοῦ κελλαρίου ἐξ ἔθους καὶ ἐπὶ τῆς ϛ ἰνδικτίονος ἐν κέρμασι χίλια δεκέξ , ἐν κέρμασι χίλια ιϛ μόνα, εἰς χρυσοῦ Ἀλεξανδρείας κεράτια ἑπτὰ ἥμισυ, γίνεται κεράτια ζ 𐅵 μόνα. …