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Account of payments to a painter and the goldsmiths' guild for imperial portraits TM 22516Oxyrhynchos318

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An official account from Oxyrhynchus of AD 318 recording payments in talents. They went to the painter Artemidoros for colours and for painting the divine (imperial) portraits on the prefects' orders, and to the goldsmiths' guild for gold supplied by weight.

In English machine translation

Year 12, 10, 2: Tybi. To Artemidoros, painter, for the price of colours and painting of the divine portraits by order of the most eminent prefects, [...] talents Thoth. To the guild of goldsmiths through Sarapas and Ammon and Demaios and [...], for the price of 11 ounces 8 1/2 grammata of gold at 26 talents, [...] talents Phaophi. To the guild of goldsmiths through Sarapas and Ammon and Demaios and [...], for 11 ounces 8 1/2 grammata at 26 talents, [...] talents [...] Mecheir. To the guild of goldsmiths [...] and Dioskourides [...], for 3 ounces 19 1/3 (?) grammata at [26] talents [...] Pachon 11 of the year, through Zoilos [...] Phamenoth. To the guild [...] [...] [... lines lost ...]

"Divine portraits" (theioi charakteres) refers to images of the emperors. The regnal year 12, 10, 2 corresponds to the joint reigns of Constantine, Licinius and the Caesars.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Official Account). 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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p.oxy.55.3791

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 318 · Oxyrhynchos

ἔτουςιβ ι β Τῦβι. Ἀρτεμιδώρῳ ζωγράφῳ ὑπὲρ τιμῆς χρωμάτων καὶ ζωγραφίας θείων χαρακτήρων κατὰ κέλευσιν τῶν ἐξοχωτάτων ἐπάρχων τάλαντα […] Θώθ. τῷ κοινῷ τῶν χρυσοχόων διὰ Σαραπᾶ καὶ Ἄμμωνος καὶ Δημαίου καὶ […] ὑπὲρ τιμῆς χρυσοῦ οὐγκιῶν ια γραμμάτων η 𐅷 ἐκ ταλάντων κϛ τάλαντα …[…] Φ…