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An order issued by the church to Serenos, priest and steward of the church of Apa Philoxenos at Oxyrhynchus, to supply four double jars of wine to Philoxenos, assistant in the tax-collection office, as festival allowance. A further delivery of four double jars is noted under a later date, Tybi 29 of the 10th indiction (AD 487).
The year is given in the Oxyrhynchite double era (years 163 and 132). A diplon (double jar) was a standard wine measure; the order for payment from a church administration is an administrative order rather than a receipt.
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 issued by a Church). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
[r] ☧ ἡ ἁγία ἐκκλησία τῷ εὐλαβεστάτῳ Σερήνῳ πρεσβυτέρῳ προνοητῇ ἄπα Φιλοξένου. παράσχου Φιλοξένῳ βοηθῷ ἐξακτορίας λόγῳ ἑορτικῶν Τῦβι ι ἰνδικτίονος οἴνου διπλᾶ τέσσαρα, γίνονται οἴνου διπλᾶ δ μόνα. ἔτους ρξγ ρλβ Τῦβι κθ ι ἰνδικτίονος ἄλλα διʼ ἐμοῦ οἴνου διπλᾶ δ μόνα. [v] [… 2 line…
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