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Receipt for wages of a many-oared boat serving the Thebaid governor's staff TM 22637Panopolis27. Okt. 403

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Receipt issued at Panopolis in October 403 by Aurelius Apion of Antinoopolis, captain of a many-oared boat serving the office of the governor of the Thebaid, to Aurelius Sennouthes of Hermoupolis. Apion acknowledges payment in full of the customary wages for the boat for the second indiction.

In English machine translation

[recto] Aurelius Apion son of Paesios, from Antinoou polis, captain of a many-oared boat serving the staff of the governorship of the Thebaid, to Aurelius Sennouthes son of Victor, from Hermoupolis, residing in Panopolis, greetings. I have received from you and have been paid in full the wages customarily given for the same many-oared boat for the present second indiction, and I have no claim against you concerning this, and I have issued to you this receipt for security, with my signature, and having been asked the formal question I gave my assent. In the consulship of our master Theodosius the eternal Augustus and Flavius Rumoridus, vir clarissimus, Phaophi 29. I, Aurelius Apion son of Paesios, the aforesaid, have issued to you this receipt as stated above. Melas […] [verso] […]

The 'many-oared boat' (polykopon) was a fast official vessel; Sennouthes apparently paid the crew wages as a liturgical or contracted obligation. The final line naming Melas, probably the writer of the document, is damaged and the verso is lost.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below. 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 · 27. Okt. 403 · Panopolis

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