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A receipt in which Ioannes, headman of the village of Seftha, acknowledges receiving 1 1/3 gold solidi from Palalios, an assistant, for repairing a wall in the village. It was written at Oxyrhynchus in January 513.
The meaning of apostasis here is uncertain, perhaps a storehouse or an outbuilding. The double year number refers to the Oxyrhynchite eras (years 189 and 158).
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 Payment for Repair of a Wall). 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] † ἐγὼ Ἰωάννης μείζων κώμης Σέφθα ἔσχον παρὰ τοῦ κυρίου Παλαλίου βοηθοῦ εἰς διόρθωσιν τοῦ τοίχου τῆς ἀποστάσεως τῆς αὐτῆς μου κώμης τῆς ὑπὸ Ὠριγένους χρυσοῦ νομισμάτιον ἓν τρίτον ὡς νομιτεύεται, γίνεται χρυσοῦ νομισμάτιον α γ, καὶ πρὸς σὴν ἀσφάλειαν τοῦτο πεποίημαί σοι τὸ ἐντά…
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