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Receipt for wages paid in gold to two villagers by Makarios TM 22086Oxyrhynchos15. Okt. 572

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A receipt in which two villagers, Georgios and Hieremias, from the village of Sarapion Chairemon in the Justinopolite (Oxyrhynchite) nome, acknowledge receiving gold from Makarios son of Menas as their wages for the sixth indiction. It is dated 15 October 572 at Oxyrhynchus.

In English machine translation

[recto] † In the reign of our most divine and most pious master, greatest benefactor, Flavius Justinus, the eternal Augustus and Imperator, year 7, in the 2nd consulship of his Serenity, Phaophi 18, sixth indiction. To the most admirable Makarios, son of the late Menas, from the New City of Justinus, the Aurelii Georgios son of Papiren, his mother being Elisabet, and Hieremias son of Victor, his mother being Martyria, both from the village of Sarapion Chairemon in the Justinopolite nome, greetings. We acknowledge that we have received from your Admirableness for our wages of the present sixth indiction, of gold […] [… 1 line lost …] [verso] † Document of Georgios son of Papiren and Hieremias son of Victor from Sarapion Chairemon. […]

The "New City of Justinus" and the "Justinopolite nome" are names given to Oxyrhynchus and its nome under Justin II. The amount of gold is lost.

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 Wages). 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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p.oxy.16.1992

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 15. Okt. 572 · Oxyrhynchos

[r] † βασιλείας τοῦ θειοτάτου καὶ εὐσεβεστάτου ἡμῶν δεσπότου μεγίστου εὐεργέτου Φλαουίου Ἰουστίνου τοῦ αἰωνίου Αὐγούστου καὶ Αὐτοκράτορος ἔτους ζ ὑπατείας τῆς αὐτῶν γαληνότητος τὸ β Φαῶφι ιη ἰνδικτίονος ἕκτης. τῷ θαυμασιωτάτῳ Μακαρίῳ υἱῷ τοῦ μακαρίου Μηνᾶ ἀπὸ τῆς Νέας Ἰουστίνου π…