List of σύμμαχοι
List of 34 summachoi in the service of 'the honourable house' who had each received 1/3 solidus as their monthly wage.
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 22105
Payments of monthly wages to symmachoi of the glorious house TM 22105OxyrhynchusA.D. 612
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An account of monthly wages paid through the banker Makarios to armed retainers (symmachoi spatharioi) serving a great household at Oxyrhynchus, each receiving one-third of a solidus for the month Phaophi. The verso gives the total for Phaophi and Hathyr; the document dates to AD 612.
In English machine translation
[recto]
† Paid through the most esteemed Makarios, banker, to the symmachoi spatharioi listed below who serve the glorious house, for the monthly wage of the month Phaophi of the 1st indiction:
to Menas, chief symmachos, 1/3 solidus; to Ischyrion 1/3 solidus; to Horion 1/3 solidus; to Jeremias 1/3 solidus;
to Ammonios Pios 1/3 solidus; to […]askas son of Kelelos 1/3 solidus; to John Kolobos 1/3 solidus; to John Keres 1/3 solidus; to Peter Saeis 1/3 solidus; to Peter of Nilopolis 1/3 solidus; to Samoun 1/3 solidus; to Pamouthios of Herakleopolis 1/3 solidus; to Menas Krysi 1/3 solidus; to George Kankin 1/3 solidus; to Areobindas 1/3 solidus; to Apollos Pameie 1/3 solidus; to Pekysios Patebe 1/3 solidus.
Total for [34] names, [in gold on the private standard], eleven and one-third solidi less forty-five and one-quarter carats,
total in gold on the private standard 11 1/3 solidi less 45 1/4 carats only.
Year 289 and 258, […] 21(?), 1st indiction. †
[verso]
† Total to the symmachoi spatharioi for the months Phaophi and Hathyr of the 1st indiction, on the private standard, 22 1/2 (?) solidi.
Symmachoi were armed retainers or couriers employed by the great estates, here probably of the Apion family; only 17 of the 34 names survive. The double year (289 and 258) is the Oxyrhynchite era dating.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as List of Payments to σύμμαχοι). 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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