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Receipt for a payment toward the official's many-oared boat TM 36674Aphrodites Kome? (Antaiopolites)

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A receipt issued by Psais, a tax collector, acknowledging full payment of the customary contribution for the official's polykopon (a many-oared vessel) for the first indiction, amounting to 1 1/4 gold solidi less 2 1/4 carats. Being illiterate, Psais had Aurelius Kallinikos son of Victor write for him; the document likely comes from Aphrodito in the 6th century.

In English machine translation

[recto] [...] I have received and been paid in full by you the customary payment given according to custom, of the assessment (kanon) of the first indiction, on account of the official's polykopon, that is, of gold 1 1/4 solidus less 2 1/4 carats by the goldsmith's standard. And for your security I have issued the receipt of full payment as aforesaid. Epeiph 26 of the same first indiction. From the polykopitai, through me, Psais, collector. I, the aforesaid, have issued the receipt as aforesaid. I, Aurelius Kallinikos son of Victor, having been asked, wrote on his behalf, as he does not know letters. [verso] Receipt for the polykopon

The polykopon was a many-oared vessel, here apparently a boat for an official, maintained through a levy; 'goldsmith's standard' renders chrysochoikon, a reckoning of gold weight. The beginning is lost, so the payers' and recipient's names are partly missing.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Quittance). 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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p.cair.masp.2.67136

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · Aphrodites Kome? (Antaiopolites)

[r] [… ? lines lost …] […]ἐδεξάμην καὶ πεπλήρωμαι παρʼ ὑμῶν τὴν κατὰ συνήθειαν διδομένην κατὰ τὸ ἔθος, κανόνος πρώτης ἰνδικτίονος, εἰς τὸν λόγον τοῦ ἀρχοντικοῦ πολυκώπου, τοῦτʼ ἔστιν χρυσοῦ νομισμάτιον ἓν τέταρτον παρὰ κεράτια δύο τέταρτον χρυσοχοϊκῷ. καὶ εἰς ὑμῶν ἀσφάλειαν ἐξέδω…