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Receipt for the price of linen tunics supplied to the state TM 22576Arsinoites5. März 342

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A receipt addressed to Aurelius Auxon, logistes (curator) of the Arsinoite nome, by three craftsmen, a weaver, a fuller and a flax-dresser, acknowledging payment from the public bankers of the price of 1,500 plain linen tunics supplied for the 15th indiction at 1 talent each. It was written in the Arsinoite nome on 5 March 342.

In English machine translation

To Aurelius Auxon, logistes of the Arsinoite nome, from the Aurelii Neilos son of Achillas, weaver of tarsikaria, and […]ios son of Palmatos, fuller, and …me son of Silvanus, flax-dresser, all three from the same city. We have been paid by the bankers of the public funds of the nome, on your order, the price of the plain linen tunics which we supplied for the 15th indiction, for tunics numbering 1,500 at 1 talent each, total 1,500 talents, in full, and in answer to the formal question we have agreed. In the consulship of our lords Constantius Augustus for the 3rd time and Constans Augustus for the 2nd time, Phamenoth 9.

The text gives 1,500 tunics (numeral Αφ), though one catalogue title speaks of 3,500. A tarsikarios was a weaver of a particular type of linen cloth associated with Tarsus; the logistes was the city's chief financial official.

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 the Price of 3500 Tunics). 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 · 5. März 342 · Arsinoites

Αὐρηλίῳ Αὔξονι λογιστῇ Ἀρσινοίτου παρὰ Αὐρηλίων Νείλου Ἀχιλλᾶ ταρσικαρίου καὶ […]ιου Παλμάτου λευκαντοῦ καὶ …μη Σιλβανοῦ στιπποχειριστοῦ, τῶν τριῶν ἀπὸ τῆς αὐτῆς πόλεως. ἠριθμήθημεν παρὰ τῶν τοῦ νομοῦ δημοσίων χρημάτων τραπεζιτῶν ἐξ ἐπιστάλματός σου τῆς τιμῆς ὧν παρεσχήκαμεν στιχ…