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Letter from Ioannes to Serenos about gold to be collected at Posompous TM 37110Oxyrhynchos (?)VI - VII

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A Byzantine letter from Ioannes to Serenos (also addressing Menas) about gold owed to him that has not been paid, leaving him pressed by collectors. He asks Serenos to report whether Martyrios has paid and instructs him to go to the village of Posompous and deposit the gold there, since he owes 15 carats of Alexandrian gold.

In English machine translation

[recto] I am astonished (?) [...] that up to today he has [given me nothing] of the gold, but has left me harassed by the [collectors and the] [...]. So now at least write to me whether you have been paid by Martyrios the [...] [which you] lent (?) at Pakerke. If then you are paid by Martyrios and the things of the man of Paker[ke] [...] as you told me. Be willing to go to the village of Posompous [to collect for] Menas and for you, Serenos. Do not be willing to take for yourself from Hamoleis [...] but let Menas and the boy take it. The rest [...] [you, S]erenos, deposit the gold at Posompous. If then you go there, [do not neglect this, since] I am openly indebted for 15 carats of Alexandrian gold of the indiction. See then that you [do not do otherwise]. [...] ...podokoilion (?) with the gold and with one field guard [...] ... which Paulos together with Martyrios settled exactly. [verso] † And if you know, Menas, that punishment (?) [...] [un]til I have you; since many evil and unholy words [...] ... To Serenos [...] from Ioannes

Carats (keratia) were fractional units of the gold solidus, here reckoned by the Alexandrian standard. Pakerke and Posompous are villages in the Oxyrhynchite nome.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Ioannis ad Serenum epistula). 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 · VI - VII · Oxyrhynchos (?)

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