One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 22132
Order to receivers of sea freight charges to send money to the prefect of the annona TM 22132Oxyrhynchos345
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Official letter from a Flavius […], probably a high official, to Ausonius and Sarapammon, receivers of freight charges, ordering them to carry 100,000 myriads of denarii collected as sea freight charges for the third indiction to Alexandria and deliver it to the office of the prefect of the annona. Written at Oxyrhynchus in AD 345.
In English machine translation
[recto]
Flavius […]ios to Ausonius and Sarapammon, receivers […] of freight charges, greetings.
Take care, as soon as you receive the letter of my Devotion, to convey to Alexandria 100,000 myriads of silver denarii from the account of your receipt of the sea freight charges of the third fortunate indiction, and to hand them over to the office of my lord the most perfect prefect of the annona, obtaining receipts for the payment for your own security. For concerning the transfer of the money being made within the time limit to Ptolemaios the […] and the headmen (kephalaiotai) and eirenarchs, it is known that […] Farewell.
[…] in the consulship of Flavius Amantius and Albinus, viri clarissimi.
[…] Sarapammon […] myriads: 8,400 (?) myriads
[…] Ausonius […] myriads: 1,600 (?) myriads.
[verso]
[… 4 lines lost …]
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The consular date is given in Latin. The figures in the closing subscription are uncertain readings of numeral signs; the two amounts appear to be the shares paid by each receiver.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Official Letter). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
p.oxy.63.4369
[r] Φλάουϊος[…]ιος Αὐσονίῳ καὶ Σαραπάμμωνι ὑποδέκταις […]υ ναύλου χαίρειν. ἀργυρίου δηναρίων μυριάδων μυριάδας δέκα ἐκ λόγου τῆς ὑμετέρας ὑποδοχῆς τῶν θαλαττίων ναύλων τῆς τρίτης εὐτυχοῦς ἐπινεμήσεως ἅμα τῷ δέξασθαι τὰ γράμματα τῆς ἐμῆς καθοσιώσεως εἰς τὴν Ἀλεξάνδρειαν διακομίσαι…