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Receipt by a scribe for salary from a sitologos of Enteleu TM 29000OxyrhynchosII - frühes III

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A receipt in which Dioskourides of Oxyrhynchus, scribe to the grain official Theon of the Enteleu district, acknowledges receiving his salary and the expenses for filing the granary's books. It comes from Oxyrhynchus and dates to the 2nd or early 3rd century AD. The amount is lost.

In English machine translation

Dioskourides son of Aphynchis, grandson of Sarapas, his mother being Athenais, from the city of Oxyrhynchus, to Theon, sitologos of Enteleu district, greetings. I have received from you the salary and all the other expenses for the registration of the books of your sitologia of the same Enteleu, for which I serve as scribe, [silver] drachmas […] […]

A sitologos was an official in charge of a public granary; the 'registration of the books' refers to filing the granary accounts in the official archive. The sum paid and the end of the text are 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 of Salary of a Scribe). 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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p.oxy.12.1510

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · II - frühes III · Oxyrhynchos

Διοσκουρίδης Ἀφύγχιος τοῦ Σαραπᾶτος μητρὸς Ἀθηναΐδος ἀπʼ Ὀξυρύγχων πόλεως Θέωνι σιτολόγῳ Ἐντελεὺ τόπων χαίρειν. ἔσχον παρὰ σοῦ τὸ ὀψώνιον και τὴν ἄλλην δαπάνην τοῦ καταχωρισμοῦ τῶν βιβλίων πᾶσαν ἧς γραμματεύω σου σιτολογίας τῆς αὐτῆς Ἐντελεὺ ἀργυρίου δραχμὰς[…] [… ? lines lost …]