Receipt
Receipt from two embolatores to the steward of the estate of Theon for their official prerequisites.
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Receipt of embolatores for customary dues from the estate of Theon TM 37904Oxyrhynchus6th or 7th century
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A receipt in which two embolatores (officials overseeing the loading of grain shipments), Antiochos and Philippos, acknowledge payment from Cyrus, steward of the estate of Theon, of their customary fees for the third indiction. The sum is 7 gold solidi less 17 carats on the private standard; it comes from Oxyrhynchus in the 6th or 7th century AD.
In English machine translation
[recto]
Cyrus the most admirable steward of the estate of Theon has paid to us, Antiochos and Philippos, with God's help embolatores, for the customary dues of the embarkations of the present third indiction, 7 gold solidi less 17 carats on the private standard, total 7 solidi less 17 carats, private standard. Month Pharmouthi 15, third indiction. †
[verso]
† Receipt for the customary dues of the embolator, for the customary dues of the 3rd indiction, 7 gold solidi less 17 1/2 carats, private standard.
Synetheiai were customary fees or perquisites paid to officials; embolatores supervised the embole, the shipment of tax grain. The verso docket gives 17 1/2 carats rather than the 17 of the main text.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Receipt for συνήθειαι). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
p.oxy.16.1999
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