One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 22152

Order to pay a hut-builder for oil TM 22152Oxyrhynchos9. März 439

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A short payment order issued by Strategios, instructing that Herakleios, a hut-builder working on the anakleton (a structure, perhaps a stand or gallery) of some building, be paid 150 myriads of silver denarii as the price of 2 sextarii of oil. It is dated 9 March 439 at Oxyrhynchus.

In English machine translation

Strategios […] Provide to Herakleios, hut-builder, working on the anakleton of the […] and for the price of 2 sextarii of oil 150 myriads of silver (denarii), total of grain […] Year 115 and 84, Phamenoth 13.

The date uses the Oxyrhynchite era years 115 and 84. The anakleton was probably a raised stand or similar structure, but its exact nature is uncertain.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Order to Pay). 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.63.4389

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 9. März 439 · Oxyrhynchos

Στρατήγιος […] παράσχου Ἡρακλείῳ καλυβᾷ ἐργαζομένῳ εἰς τὸ ἀνάκλητον τοῦ π[…] καὶ ὑπὲρ τιμῆς ἐλαίου ξεστῶν β ἀργυρίου μυριάδας ἑκατὸν πεντήκοντα , γίνονται σίτου …[…] ἔτους ριε πδ, Φαμενὼθ ιγ.