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A receipt in which Apollonios son of Apollonios, a priest of several gods and bearer of the imperial busts in processions, acknowledges that Faustina, daughter of a former kosmetes of Oxyrhynchus, has paid him in full the wages owed for his service as her estate manager. It dates to the 2nd or 3rd century AD and comes from Oxyrhynchus.
A komastes was a cult official who carried images in religious processions; here the busts of the emperors. The manager's role (phrontistes) is inferred from the verb ephrontisa, 'I managed for you'.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Receipt from a φροντιστής). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
Ἀπολλώνιος Ἀπολλωνίου[…] … καὶ ἱερεὺς Διὸς καὶ Ἥρας καὶ Ἀταργάτιδος καὶ Κόρης καὶ Διονύσου καὶ τῶν συννάων θεῶν καὶ κωμαστὴς προτομῶν τῶν κυρίων Σεβαστῶν καὶ τῆς Νείκης Φαυστείνῃ Φαύστου τῶν κεκοσμητευκότων τῆς Ὀξυρύγχων πόλεως χαίρειν· ὁμολογῶ ἔχειν παρά σου ἐκ πλήρους τὰ ὀψώνια…
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