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Receipt for gold solidi signed by the pagarch Flavius Kallinikos TM 37366unbekanntVI

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Fragment of a Byzantine receipt for a payment in gold solidi and carats, signed by Flavius Kallinikos, pagarch. It is dated Tybi 20 of a first indiction, in the 6th century AD.

In English machine translation

[… 2 lines lost …] … and six carats, total […] gold solidi, 6 carats […]. Written Tybi 20. […] forty-five gold solidi, eighteen carats only. Flavius Kallinikos, pagarch […] […] I have signed. Written Tybi 20, indiction 1.

The carat (keration) was a fraction of the gold solidus, 24 carats to the solidus. A pagarch was the official responsible for a rural district and its tax collection.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Byzantinische Quittung). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.

DDbDP-text Full record →

p.muench.3.1.152

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · VI

[… 2 lines lost …] … καὶ κεράτια ἕξ , γίνονται χρυσοῦ νομισμάτια …, κεράτια ϛ …… . ἐγράφη Τῦβι κ. … χρυσοῦ νομισμάτια τεσσεράκοντα πέντε κεράτια δεκαοκτὼ μόνα. Φλάουιος Καλλίνικος πάγαρχος …… … σεσημείωμαι. ἐγράφη Τῦβι κ ἰνδικτίωνος α.