Order for Payment
A certain Phileas orders Dionysios to pay the rent(?) for half of a house
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 33533
Order to supply wheat as rent for half a house TM 33533Oxyrhynchite nome, Egyptca. 398 A.D.
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An order in which Phileas instructs Dionysios, the agent (cheiristes) of the estate manager Asklas, to supply Kopreus, assistant of Phoibammon, with twenty artabas of wheat as rent connected with a half share of a house. It comes from the Kynopolite nome in the 4th-5th century AD.
In English machine translation
Phileas to Dionysios, cheiristes of Asklas the pronoetes, greetings.
Provide to Kopreus, assistant of my lord brother Phoibammon, […] for […] half share of a house in the Kynopolite nome, as rents of the produce of the […] indiction, in wheat by the receiving measure, twenty artabas […]
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One record dates the text to about AD 398 and places it in the Oxyrhynchite nome, while others give the 4th-5th century and the Kynopolite nome. A pronoetes was an estate manager and a cheiristes an agent handling goods or money on his behalf.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Order for Payment). 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.mich.15.727
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