Receipt
Receipt, similar in content and in the same hand as P.Oxy. XVI 2010, from Victor to the chartoularios Georgios for 6 carats for expenses.
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A short record of a payment of 6 carats of Alexandrian gold made through the chartoularios Georgios to a certain Victor for expenses incurred elsewhere. It was written at Oxyrhynchus in Phamenoth of the 6th indiction, AD 618.
The double year (294 and 263) follows the Oxyrhynchite eras used in the Byzantine period. A chartoularios was an archivist or financial secretary of a great estate.
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 Expenses). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
Receipt, similar in content and in the same hand as P.Oxy. XVI 2010, from Victor to the chartoularios Georgios for 6 carats for expenses.
† ἐδόθη διὰ τοῦλαμπροτάτου Γεωργίου χαρτουλαρίου Βίκτορι …[…]… […] διων…φ… αν…ιμο…[…]ιτι ἐκεῖσε λόγῳ ἀναλωμάτων ἐπὶ μηνὸς Φαμενὼθ ἰνδικτίονος ϛ χρυσοῦ Ἀλεξανδρείας κεράτια ἕξ, γίνονται χρυσοῦ Ἀλεξανδρείας κεράτια ϛ μόνα. † γίνονται Ἀλεξανδρείας κεράτια ϛ. ἔτους σϙδ καὶ σξγ μηνὸς …
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