cpr.10.18
κατέβαλεν Ἰακώβιος Σαραπίωνος ὑπὲρ λειτουργίας τετάρτης ἰνδικτίωνος μυριάδας χιλίας· γίνονται δηναρίων μυριάδες Α χαλκοῦ. Μεχὶρ α δ ἰνδικτίωνος Ἀφοῦς ἐπιμελητὴς διʼ ἐμοῦ Ἀνουβίωνος
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 35340
Receipt for money paid in place of a liturgy TM 35340HerakleopolitesV
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A receipt recording that Iakobios son of Sarapion paid 1,000 myriads (10 million) of bronze denarii in commutation of a liturgy (compulsory public service) for the fourth indiction. It is issued by the overseer Aphous through Anoubion, dated Mecheir 1, in the Herakleopolite nome in the 5th century AD.
In English machine translation
Iakobios son of Sarapion has paid for the liturgy of the fourth indiction 1,000 myriads; total: 1,000 myriads of denarii in bronze.
Mecheir 1, 4th indiction. Aphous, overseer (epimeletes),
through me, Anoubion.
A liturgy was a compulsory public service; here it was commuted into a cash payment. The scribe wrote and deleted an iota before the indiction number.
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.