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One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 22091
Receipt for the divine donation and embole, with list of jewellery on verso TM 22091Oxyrhynchos25. Juli - 23. Aug. 579
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A receipt, later crossed out, issued by an official (a comes and town councillor) at Oxyrhynchus acknowledging payments made through the illustrious Serenus for the heirs of Phib son of Matrinus on the estate of Pathalek: 12 gold solidi towards the 'divine donation' and 12 carats for the Alexandrian grain levy (embole) for the twelfth indiction, paid in two instalments in Mecheir and Mesore. The verso holds a short list of gold jewellery items with values.
In English machine translation
[recto]
(deleted:) […] with God, comes and politeuomenos. You paid on behalf of [the heirs (?)] of Phib son of Matrinus of most excellent memory, through the most illustrious Serenus […] of the public (taxes) of the estate of Pathalek, for the two-thirds share of the [present] twelfth indiction, out of 16 gold solidi, full weight on the private [standard], [the dues] towards the fourth part of the divine donation of 48 gold solidi, 12 gold solidi full weight, and for the embole at Alexandria of the same twelfth indiction 12 gold carats on the Alexandrian standard, total paid 12 gold solidi full weight and 12 Alexandrian carats only, in two instalments as follows: one in Mecheir and the other in Mesore of the same twelfth indiction; and for the security of your Illustriousness I have made the present receipt, written by the hand of Hieremias my notary, with my subscription as stated above. Written in the month of Mesore of the twelfth indiction. †
(Year) 255, 224.
[verso]
[…] … in gold 3 (?), 4 solidi, 3 (?) …
bracelet, 1 solidus,
little crowns in gold, 3 (?), 1 solidus 6 (?),
7 sabakathia (?)
… at the rate of 1 (?).
[…]
The 'divine donation' (theia dorea) was an imperial levy paid in gold; the embole was the grain tax shipped to Alexandria. The year figures 255 and 224 are Oxyrhynchite era dates; the whole recto text was cancelled by the scribe.
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 δωρεά and Embole). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.