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Payment order for transport of honey to Antinoopolis TM 36858Aphrodites Kome (Antaiopolites)2. Juli 537

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An order for payment addressed to Ioannes, the receiver of public taxes, instructing him to pay one gold solidus less two carats to the beekeeper Iosephios for transporting honey to Antinoopolis, on Apollos' instructions. It is signed by two village headmen, Charisios and Bottos, at Aphrodito in the Antaiopolite nome, dated 2 July 537.

In English machine translation

[verso] 643 Payment to Ioannes, receiver: Provide from your receipt of the public taxes of the first indiction 1 solidus of gold less 2 carats by the goldsmiths' standard, the amount given to Iosephios, beekeeper, for transport of honey to Antinoou (Antinoopolis), on the instruction of Apollos. Epeiph 8 of the same first indiction. Charisios, chief of the village, I sign. Bottos, chief of the village, I sign. … [recto] … to Iosephios

"χμγ" (643) is a Christian isopsephic symbol usually read as standing for a sacred formula. A protokometes was a village headman; payment "by the goldsmiths' standard" refers to the weight standard used to reckon the coin.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Mandato di pagamento). 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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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 2. Juli 537 · Aphrodites Kome (Antaiopolites)

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