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Receipt for white linen paid to the head of the linen-weavers TM 22419Hermopolites

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A receipt issued by Aurelius Didymos, head of the guild of linen-weavers for the 8th indiction, acknowledging that Isidoros son of Apollodoros paid 2 1/6 pounds of white Tarsian linen. It comes from the Hermopolite nome and is dated Hathyr 12.

In English machine translation

[recto] Aurelius Didymos son of Chariton, head (kephalaiotes) of the linen-weavers (tarsikarioi) for the 8th indiction, to Isidoros son of Apollodoros. You have paid for the same 8th indiction, of white Tarsian linen, two and one-sixth pounds, total of white linen 2 1/6 pounds only. Hathyr 12. I, Aurelius Didymos, head of the linen-weavers, have signed. […] [verso] Receipt for linen.

Tarsikarioi were weavers of a fine linen type named after Tarsus; the payment is a linen levy collected in kind through their guild head (kephalaiotes). The year is given only by indiction.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Quittung über Leinwandsteuer). 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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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · Hermopolites

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