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Order to a wool merchant to pay a solidus to an estate steward TM 34875OxyrhynchitesEnde V

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An order for payment from two villagers named Ales, from Tampiti, instructing the wool merchant Philoxenos to pay one gold solidus to Dorotheos, steward of the estate of Dioskoros, as part of the price of wool. A scribe signs for the two illiterate senders. It dates to the late 5th century AD, from the Oxyrhynchite nome.

In English machine translation

Ales son of Pasion and Ales son of Kephalas, from the village of Tampiti, to Philoxenos, wool merchant, their brother, greetings. Give to Dorotheos, steward (pronoetes) of the estate of Dioskoros, on account of the price of wool, 1 gold solidus, 1 solidus, as a token (?) that I sent my sister Apia and he gave her the solidus, one in gold and one and a half in silver coin. So do not neglect it, brother: provide him with the solidus. We, Aurelius Ales and the other Ales son of Kephalas, agree to everything written above as stated. I, Aurelius Sarapammon, scribe, wrote on their behalf, since they do not know letters.

The phrase about sending the sister Apia and the mixed gold and silver payment is awkwardly worded and its exact sense is uncertain. A pronoetes was the manager of a private estate.

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.

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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · Ende V · Oxyrhynchites

Ἀλῆς Πασίωνος καὶ Ἀλῆς Κεφαλᾶτος ἀπὸ κώμης Ταμπιτὶ Φιλοξένῳ ἐριεμπόρῳ ἀδελφῷ χαίρειν. δὸς Δωροθέῳ προνοητῇ οὐσίας Διοσκόρου ἀπὸ λόγου τιμῆς ἐρίου χρυσοῦ νομισμάτιον ἓν 𐅵, σημείου χάριν ὅτε ἀπέστειλα τὴν ἀδελφήν μου Ἀπίαν καὶ δέδωκε εἰς αὐτὴν τὸ νομισμάτιον, ἓν μὲν ἐκ χρυσοῦ καὶ ἓ…