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A receipt in which a man acknowledges receiving from two brothers 1,000 bundles of hay owed from the harvest of Tiberius' second year. It was written by another man on his behalf because he was illiterate, and is dated in the month Sebastos of Tiberius' third year (AD 16).
Sebastos is an honorific name for the Egyptian month Thoth. The words around 'philoi Xat[…]hemeroi' are unclear and may conceal a personal name.
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.
[…]ωφις Φαυ[…] […]ωι καὶ τῶι ἀδελφῶι χαίρειν· ἀπέχω παρʼ ὑμῶν ἃς ὀφείλεται φιλῶι Ξατ[…] ημέρωι ἀπὸ λόγου ἀπὸ τοῦ γενήματος β ἔτους Τιβερίου Καίσαρος Σεβαστοῦ χόρτου δεσμὰς χιλίας γίνονται χόρτου […]ἔγραψεν ὑπὲρ αὐτοῦ Γε[…] Ἀκήους διὰ τὸ μὴ εἰδέναι αὐτὸν γράμματα. ἔτους γ Τιβερίου…
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