One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 32513

Payment order from Aelianus to Apollonios for expenses of Hareotes TM 32513Pesla (Hermopolites) oder HermopolisAnfang IV

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A payment order from Aelianus instructing Apollonios, an estate manager (cheiristes), to pay Hareotes 6 talents of silver for expenses he will account for. It dates from the early 4th century AD, from Pesla in the Hermopolite nome or Hermopolis.

In English machine translation

From Aelianus to Apollonios, cheiristes. Give to Hareotes, sower (?), for the expenses incurred through him, for which he will render account, six talents of silver, total 6 talents of silver. I have signed for six talents of silver. […] indiction, month of Hathyr 1 (?) […] Spend (it).

A cheiristes was a manager handling payments on a private estate. The term rendered 'sower' (kataspores) is uncertain in meaning and may denote an agricultural worker responsible for sowing.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below. 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.6.43

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · Anfang IV · Pesla (Hermopolites) oder Hermopolis

παρὰ Αἰλιανοῦ Ἀπολλωνίῳ χειριστῇ. δὸς Ἁρεοῦτι κατασπορεῖ εἰς τὰ διʼ αὐτοῦ ἀναλώματα, ὧν λόγον δώσει, ἀργυρίου τάλαντα ἕξ, γίνεται ἀργυρίου τάλαντα ϛ. ἐσημειωσάμην ἓξ τάλαντα ἀργυρίου. […] ἰνδικτίονος μηνὸς Ἁθὺρ α… ἀνάλωσον