Receipt for money
This ostracon contains a receipt for money.
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 34735
Receipt for a payment of denarii from Menas TM 34735unknownByzantine century
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A short ostracon receipt recording that Les son of Ploutas received, on behalf of Sambas, a payment of 30,000 denarii from Menas on Tybi 3 of a fifth indiction year. It dates from the Byzantine period; its find place is unknown.
In English machine translation
Tybi 3. Les son of Ploutas, machos (?), for Sambas, 5th indiction.
From Menas, 3 myriads of denarii (30,000 denarii), 3.
The word 'machos' is unclear; it may be a title such as machimos (guard) or part of a name. Sums in myriads of denarii reflect the inflated accounting currency of late Roman Egypt.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Receipt for Money). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
o.leid.409
Τῦβι γ Λῆς Πλουτᾶ μάχου ὑπὲρ Σαμβᾶ ε ἰνδικτίονος παρὰ Μηνᾶ δηναρίων μυριάδας τρεῖς γ.