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A receipt issued in the name of a holy church to the magister Phoibammon for 1 solidus and 19 carats paid toward arrears of the gold owed by or for the night-strategoi (night police officials) of Hermopolis. The receipt is subscribed by the deacon Isak and dated Mecheir 23 of a 6th indiction, in the 6th century AD.
The nyktostrategoi were local night-watch officials; the 'gold' here is a payment in gold coin connected with them. The beginning of the first line, naming the issuer, is lost.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Quittung). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
…[…]…[…] ἁγίας ἐκκλησίας τῷ μεγαλοπρεπεστάτῳ κυρίῳ Φοιβάμμωνι μαγίστερι. ἔχω παρὰ τῆς σῆς μεγαλοπρεπείας ὑπὲρ λοιπάδος τοῦ χρυσίου τῶν νυκτοστρατήγων Ἑρμουπόλεως νόμισμα ἓν κεράτια δεκαεννέα, γίνεται νόμισμα α κεράτια ιθ μόνα. ἐγράφη μηνὶ Μεχεὶρ κγ ἰνδικτίονος ϛ † † ἡ ἁγία ἐκκλησ…
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