Order for a payment
Order for a payment of 10 myriads. Complete. Written across the fibres.
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 35585
Order from Nonnos to Neilos for payment of 10 myriads of denarii TM 35585Oxyrhynchus5th century
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A short payment order in which Nonnos instructs Neilos to pay out 10 myriads (100,000) of silver denarii for his use, signed by Nonnos himself. It was written at Oxyrhynchus in the 5th century AD, in the month of Hathyr.
In English machine translation
† Nonnos to the most honourable Neilos […].
Pay out for my use 10 myriads of silver, total 10 myriads of denarii.
Hathyr … † I, Nonnos, have signed.
A myriad is 10,000; sums in denarii were reckoned in such large units because of severe late Roman inflation. The day of Hathyr and a word after Neilos's name are illegible.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Order for Payment of Money). 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.oxy.10.1337
† Νόννος τῷ τιμιωτάτῳ Νείλῳ ελ… παράσχου εἰς ἐμὴν χρείαν ἀργυρίου μυριάδας δέκα, γίνονται δηναρίων μυριάδες ι . Ἁθὺρ … † Νόννος σεσημείωμαι