cpr.10.17
κατέβαλεν Ἀϊῶν ἄπα Νὰκ ὑπὲρ λειτουργίας πρώτης ἰνδικτίωνος μυριάδας χιλίας· γίνονται δηναρίων μυριάδες Α χαλκοῦ. Μεσορὴ α α ἰνδικτίωνος. Ἀφοῦς ἐπιμελητὴς διʼ ἐμοῦ Ἀνουβίωνος ἐσημειωσάμην
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 35339
Receipt for payment commuting a liturgy TM 35339HerakleopolitesV
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A receipt recording that Aion son of Apa Nak paid 1,000 myriads (10 million) of bronze denarii as a cash payment in place of a compulsory public service (liturgy) for the first indiction. It is signed on behalf of the overseer Aphous by Anoubion, and dates from the 5th century AD in the Herakleopolite nome.
In English machine translation
Aion son of Apa Nak has paid for the liturgy of the first indiction 1,000 myriads; total 1,000 myriads of denarii in bronze. Mesore 1, 1st indiction.
Aphous, overseer, through me Anoubion: I have signed.
A liturgy was a compulsory public service; here it was discharged by a money payment. Sums in late antique Egypt were reckoned in myriads (units of 10,000) of heavily inflated bronze denarii.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Quittung für Liturgieadäration). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.