Receipt for Payment
Receipt for money payment made by the chief of police of the division of Thallos to the chief clerk (primicerius) of the stenographers (exceptores)
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 34826
Receipt of the primicerius of the exceptores for 17 gold carats from a riparius TM 34826HermopolitesVth century A.D.
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A receipt in which Kollouthos, chief of the stenographers (exceptores) in the provincial governor's office, acknowledges that Serenos, police official (riparius) of the district of Thallos, paid him 17 gold carats for the fifth indiction. It comes from the Hermopolite nome in the 5th century AD.
In English machine translation
[recto]
☧ To my brother Serenos, riparius of the meris of Thallos, for the fifth indiction, Kollouthos, with God, primicerius of the most illustrious exceptores of the governor's office.
I have received from you and have been paid in full 17 carats of gold for the present fifth indiction, given to me by you on behalf of the primicerius of the exceptores of the fifth indiction, total 17 carats of gold, and for your security I have issued this receipt as aforesaid.
† I, Kollouthos, with God, primicerius of the exceptores: the receipt is satisfactory to me as [aforesaid].
[verso]
† Receipt of the primicerius of the exceptores, fifth indiction, 17 carats of gold. ☧
A riparius was a local police official; the exceptores were shorthand clerks of the governor's staff, headed by a primicerius. The carat (keration) was a fraction of the gold solidus (1/24).
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 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.14.683
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