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A receipt recording payments in gold from the villages of Hiereon, Pelos, Lykon and Tlea, handed over through the estate manager Ioustos and the village headman Sousneus. The total of 25 solidi less 182 carats was paid to Andronikos and Menas, officials responsible for the grain levy (embole), for the 4th to 5th indictions. Sixth century AD, Oxyrhynchus.
The embole was the levy for grain shipped to the capital, here commuted to gold; the ospregitai are apparently officials connected with it. Amounts are expressed as gold solidi minus a number of carats (1/24 of a solidus).
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 embole). 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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