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Receipt in which Gaius Julius Anthropas, business agent of Ulpius Mygdonius, acknowledges receiving the agreed transport charge from Serapion also called Apollonianos, a former gymnasiarch of Oxyrhynchus and former inspector of the Oasis. It dates to the 2nd or 3rd century AD and comes from Oxyrhynchus.
The term phoretron denotes a charge for carriage or freight. The rest of the receipt, with amounts and details, is lost.
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 Transport Costs). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
Γάιος Ἰούλιος Ἀνθρωπᾶς πραγματευτὴς Οὐλπίου Μυγδονίου Σεραπίωνι τῷ καὶ Ἀπολλωνιανῷ Σπαρτᾶ γυμνασιαρχήσαντι τῆς Ὀξυρυγχειτῶν πόλεως γενομένῳ ἐπισκέπτῃ Ὀάσε[…] …ς Ἑπτανομίας χαίρειν. ὁμολογῶ ἀπεσχηκέναι παρ’ ἐσοῦ τὸ συμπεφωνημένον φόρετρον …πο…[…]…εως […]… [… ? lines lost …]
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