Receipt
A receipt from three persons, acting apparently for a guild of brickmakers and builders, to a village pronoetes, for payments covering a period of four years.
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 37907
Receipt for annual payments on behalf of brickmakers and builders TM 37907OxyrhynchusEarly 6th century
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A receipt in which Apollos, Abraham and Anoup acknowledge receiving from Ammonios, estate manager (pronoetes) of Thaesis, payments on behalf of the brickmakers and builders: 3 artabas of wheat and a gold solidus less 4 1/2 carats for each year from the 5th to the 8th indiction. It was written at Oxyrhynchus in the early 6th century AD.
In English machine translation
643.
☧ I, Apollos son of Pathon, and Abraham son of Phoibammon, and Anoup have received from Ammonios, pronoetes of Thaesis, on behalf of the brickmakers and builders, for the fifth indiction up to the eighth indiction, that is, for each year 3 artabas of wheat and 1 gold solidus less 4 1/2 carats, reckoned by the private standard; total: 3 artabas of wheat, 1 solidus less 4 1/2 carats by the private standard. Written in the month Epeiph of the 8th indiction, for the 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th indictions, in full. Through me, Apollos: I wrote on behalf of him, since he is illiterate.
The opening 'χμγ' (643) is a Christian numerical symbol, usually read as standing for a sacred phrase, not a date. A pronoetes was a manager or agent for a large estate or village property; 'private standard' refers to a non-official weight used for weighing gold coin.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Receipt on Behalf of Brickmakers). 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.16.2007
χμγ. ☧ ἐγὼ Ἀπολλῶ Παθῶνι καὶ Ἀβράμιος Φοιβάμμωνος καὶ Ἀνοῦπ ἔσχον παρὰ Ἀμμωνίου προνοητοῦ Θαήσιος ὑπὲρ πλινθευτῶν καὶ οἰκοδόμων ὑπὲρ πέμπτης ἰνδικτίονος ἕως ὀγδόης ἰνδικτίονος, τουτέστιν καθʼ ἕκαστον ἐνιαυτὸν σίτου ἀρτάβας τρεῖς καὶ χρυσοῦ νομισμάτιον ἓν παρὰ κεράτια τέσσαρα ἥμισ…