Payment order for one solidus less two carats from crop rents TM 34857HermopolisV - VI

A payment order from Taurinos to a farmer, also named Taurinos, directing payment of one gold solidus less two carats from the rents on the crops of the first indiction. It ends with a confirmation signed by Flavius Taurinos. It comes from Hermopolis and dates to the 5th or 6th century AD.

In English machine translation

The Greek term entagion means a written payment order or instruction. A solidus 'less two carats' was a common way of stating a gold sum short of a full coin, since a solidus was reckoned at 24 carats.

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