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An order for payment issued by the mother of Eutropia to the wine-seller Neilos, instructing him to pay Ambrosios 2,000 myriads of denarii for the hire of 16 camels transporting equipment to Psychis. It was written at Oxyrhynchus on 15 February 419.
The date uses the double Oxyrhynchite era (years 95 and 64). The sum is reckoned in myriads (units of 10,000) of debased denarii, typical of 5th-century inflationary accounting.
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 for Transport). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
ἡ μήτηρ Εὐτροπίης Νείλῳ οἰνοπράτῃ χαίρειν. παράσχου Ἀμβροσίῳ εἰς λόγον μισθοῦ καμήλων ιϛ μεταφερόντων τὰ σκεύη μέχρι Ψύχεως μυριάδας δισχιλίας, γίνονται μυριάδες Β μόναι. ἡ μήτηρ Εὐτροπίας σεσημείωμαι μυριάδας δισχιλίας μόνας . ἔτους ϙε ξδ Μεχεὶρ κα.
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