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Receipt issued by Aurelius Ammonios, treasurer of the council funds of Oxyrhynchus, to the councillor Tiberius Claudius Didymos also called Herakleios, acknowledging repayment of a sum of drachmas he had borrowed from the council's funds. Early 3rd century AD, Oxyrhynchus.
The exegetes was a senior municipal magistracy; the treasurer (tamias) administered the funds of the city council (boule). The amount and terms are lost after the first lines.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Return of a Loan from the Senate). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
Αὐρήλιος Ἀμμώνιος ἐξηγητεύσας βουλευτὴς ταμίας βουλευτικῶν χρημάτων τῆς Ὀξυρυγχιτῶν πόλεως Τιβερίῳ Κλαυδίῳ Διδύμῳ τῷ καὶ Ἡρακλείῳ πολιτευομένῳ βουλευτῇ χαίρειν. διέγραψάς μοι τῇ ἐνεστώσῃ ἡμέρᾳ ἃς[…][…] ἐδάνείσω βουλευτ[…]δραχμὰς … [… ? lines lost …]
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