Home › Spine › TM 30083
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 30083

Receipt for salary paid to a secretary of the grain collection office TM 30083OxyrhynchosIII

The same ancient text or artifact as recorded by 2 records across 2 independent projects, recognised as one entity by its TM-Text identifier. View on Trismegistos →

A receipt in which Aurelius Thonis, secretary of the office collecting metropolitan grain dues in the upper toparchy of Mermertha, acknowledges receiving 100 drachmas of his salary from the collector Aurelius Herodes. It dates to the 3rd century AD, from Oxyrhynchus.

In English machine translation

Aurelius Thonis son of Horion, secretary of the collection office for metropolitan grain receipts of the upper toparchy of Mermertha, to Aurelius Herodes son of Ploution, collector of the same, greetings. I have received from you, on account of salary, as a payment on account, 100 drachmas, total 100 drachmas. Year 5, Phaophi 12.

"Metropolitan grain receipts" (sitika metropolitika lemmata) refers to grain dues levied on residents of the nome capital; "on account" indicates a partial payment toward the salary.

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 Salary). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.

DDbDP-text Full record →

p.oxy.50.3572

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

Αὐρήλιος Θῶνις Ὡρείωνος γραμματεὺς πρακτορείας σιτικῶν μητροπολιτικῶν λημμάτων ἄνω τοπαρχίας Μερμέρθων Αὐρηλίῳ Ἡρώδῃ Πλουτίωνος πράκτορι τῆς αὐτῆς χαίρειν. ἔσχον παρὰ σοῦ ὑπὲρ λόγου σαλαρίου ἐπὶ λόγου δραχμὰς ἑκατόν, γίνονται δραχμαὶ ρ. ἔτους ε Φαῶφι ιβ.