Lettre d'un banquier
Private letter from Gerontios to the banker Josep
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 30702
Letter from Gerontios to the banker Joseph about a payment TM 30702Provenance unknown (Province of Egypt)IV A.D.
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A short letter or payment note from Gerontios to the banker Joseph, mentioning a sum of 2,820 myriads, presumably of denarii. It dates to the 4th century AD; its provenance is unknown.
In English machine translation
To my lord brother Joseph, the banker, Gerontios, greetings.
[…] Nilo[…] 2,820 myriads (of denarii?) only.
The nominative 'trapezites' stands in the text where the dative would be expected; the descriptions take Joseph, the addressee, to be the banker. Sums in 'myriads' (units of 10,000 denarii) reflect the heavy inflation of the 4th century; the currency is not named in the surviving text.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Lettre d’un banquier). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
p.got.114
κυρίῳ μου ἀδελφῷ Ἰωσὴπ τραπεζίτης Γερόντιος χαίρειν. χι[…]ισεν Νιλο[…] μυριάδας δισχιλίας ὀκτακοσίας εἴκοσι μόνα