Exercise [VI AD]
Writing exercise of 2 apprentice scribes copying various parts of documentary texts
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 36175
Scribal exercise with account of gold taxes and document opening addressed to an Apion estate agent TM 36175Oxyrhynchos501 CE – 599 CE
The same ancient text or artifact as recorded by 3 records across 3 independent projects, recognised as one entity by its TM-Text identifier. View on Trismegistos →
A sheet with the start of an account of gold-tax receipts for a 6th indiction, followed by the opening of a document addressed by one Aurelius Apa Nakeios of Oxyrhynchus to Serenus, a legal agent of the great Apion estate. It appears to be a writing exercise by apprentice scribes copying parts of documentary texts.
In English machine translation
[… ? lines lost …]
[…]
† Account of receipt of gold taxes of the 6th indiction, as follows:
through Papchores, 1 solidus less 5 1/2 carats (?), 4
† In the name of the lord and master
To Aurelius Apa Nakeios, son of the late […], from the city of the Oxyrhynchites, to you
Serenus, nomikarios
of the glorious house of Apion, from the same
city, in the name of, through Phib[…]
One record describes it as a tax account dated 602-603, another as a 6th-century writing exercise by two apprentice scribes copying document formulas; the abrupt switch between texts supports the exercise interpretation. A nomikarios was a legal clerk or notary-type agent; the address sequence is garbled, with 'to you' oddly placed.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Account of Money Taxes). 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.col.8.246
[… ? lines lost …] […] † λόγος ὑποδοχῆς χρυσικῶν ϛ ἰνδικτίονος οὕτως· διὰ Παπχῶρε νομισμάτιον α παρὰ ε 𐅵 δ † ἐξ ὀνόματος τοῦ κυρίου καὶ δεσπότου Αὐρηλίῳ Ἄπα Νακείῳ υἱῷ τοῦ μακαρίου ἀπὸ τῆς Ὀξυρυγχιτῶν πόλεως σοὶ Σερήνῳ νομικαρίῳ τοῦ ἐνδόξου οἴκου Ἀπίωνος ἀπὸ τῆς αὐτῆς πόλεως ἐξ ὀ…