An instruction to Apollinarios, probably an estate agent, concerning payment to Apollonios of the hamlet of Loukios for green fodder bought to feed the estate's donkeys. The writer orders the remaining balance paid, the receipt collected, and the three solidi advanced by the banker Philoxenos recovered from the farmer who worked the land. Oxyrhynchos, AD 527-529.
In English machine translation
[recto]
[† After the] three solidi less 12 carats on the private standard, which Philoxenos the banker has given to [Apollonios] from the hamlet of Loukios for the price of the green fodder of the two and one-eighth arouras [purchased] for the feed of the [estate's donkeys, on account] of the sixth indiction, from the crops of the seventh indiction, provide him with [13] carats [less] 2 carats on the private standard to complete the price, these said 13 carats less 2 carats on the private standard being charged to you alone. And receive from him the acknowledgement which he made concerning the price. As for the three full-weight solidi given to him through Philoxenos, demand these from the man who farmed the three arouras from Pekyty, of the irrigation machine of Phoibammon also called Belaau, from Anta, so that you may pay them to the said Philoxenos, who also gave the same three solidi to the said Apollonios.
[verso]
† Deliver to the most admirable Apollinarios, from […]
A carat (keration) was 1/24 of a gold solidus; sums 'less x carats on the private standard' reflect the deductions of local exchange practice. The 'machine' is an irrigation wheel (saqiya) used as a unit of estate land.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Letter to Apollinarius). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.