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Receipt recording that Aurelius Horion son of Herminos paid 5 talents 3,142 drachmas to Claudius, praepositus of the patrimonial estates, for the price of barley from the village of Pela for the 4th indiction. Calculations at the top deduct 6 1/2 percent charges from component sums. Dated 24 April 317, Pela in the Oxyrhynchite nome.
The patrimonium was the imperial private estate administration; the 6 1/2 percent deductions appear to be charges on the sums owed. The term rendered 'conversion to silver' (exargyrismos) refers to commuting a payment in kind into money.
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 the Value of Barley). 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 for payment of a sum to the praepositus of the patrimonium for the value of barley owned by the village of Pela; at the beginning there are calculations about the sum to be paid which appears to be connected to a reinbursement from the government for a requisition
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