One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 32366

Payment order from Nearchides for hay supplied by Sabinus TM 32366HermopolitesIV

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A payment order issued by Nearchides instructing an unnamed person to pay Sabinus 4,000 silver talents for hay. It dates to the 4th century AD and comes from the Hermopolite nome.

In English machine translation

From Nearchides […] Provide […] also now to Sabinus for hay 4,000 talents of silver, total 4,000 talents. I, Nearchides, have signed. […]

The sum of 4,000 talents reflects the severe inflation of the 4th century. The sender's name, the verb and the amount are largely restored.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Zahlungsauftrag an N.N.). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.

cpr.8.43

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · IV · Hermopolites

παρὰ Νεαρχίδου […] παράσχου[…] καὶ νῦν Σαβίνῳ ὑπὲρ χόρτου ἀργυρίου τάλαντα τετρακισχίλια, γίνεται τάλαντα Δ. Νεαρχίδης σεσημείωμαι.[…]