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A receipt issued by Serenos, a weigher (zygostates), to the banker Makarios, acknowledging payment on behalf of the estate manager (pronoetes) of Pakerke of 87 gold solidi less 380 1/2 carats, by the private standard. Dated Tybi 29 of an indiction 5th year, from the Oxyrhynchite nome in the Byzantine period.
Gold sums were often expressed as whole solidi 'less' a number of carats (1/24 solidus); 380 1/2 carats is a large deduction, nearly 16 solidi. The 'private standard' (idiotikon) and 'weighing allowance' (rhope) are technical terms of Byzantine gold accounting.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Ricevuta per versamento di denaro). 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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