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A short request or order addressed to the landowner Flavius Phoibammon by Anoup son of Apinyris, asking that 2 diplai and 2 keratia be paid, in connection with a voucher for one gold coin, to Pamouthis the camel-driver. It was written at Oxyrhynchus on Phamenoth 8 of an eleventh indiction, in the 6th century AD.
Diplai and keratia are units of account or small coins used in fractions of the gold solidus; a pittakion here is a written voucher or order. The sentence about keeping the coins because of the need for small change is grammatically loose and its exact sense is uncertain.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Anup to Flavius Phoebammon). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
[r] Φαμενὼθ η τῆς ἑνδεκάτης ἰνδικτίωνος Φλαουΐῳ μεγαλοπρεπείας καὶ ἐνδοξοτάτῳ κυρίῳ Φοιβάμμωνι τῶν γεουχούντων. λόγῳ πιττακίου ἑνὸς χρυσίνου παρακαλοῦμεν τὴν ἀρετὴν διπλᾶ δύο καὶ κεράτια δύο, διπλᾶ β κεράτια β. ἀνάγκῃ τῶν κερμάτων τηρεῖν αὐτὰ ἡ ἀρετή σου Παμούθι καμηλίτῃ χαρίζῃ. …
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