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Account of payments through chartularii for dikes and reservoirs TM 37922OxyrhynchusLate 6th century

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An account of money payments in gold solidi, grouped under several chartularii (estate or administrative clerks), mostly for dikes, reservoirs and a canal in villages of the Oxyrhynchite nome. It dates to the late 6th century AD and comes from Oxyrhynchus.

In English machine translation

[recto] [… 5 lines lost …] [verso, column 1] […] for the people from Phakra, 1 solidus, for the dikes of Sepho and Leonidou, […] solidus With the lord Ioannes, chartularius, as follows: for the people from Leonidou, […] solidus, for Teruthis, 2 solidi, for Takona, by note (?), 1 solidus, for the reservoir of Isiou Panga, 1 solidus, for the canal of the archon, 1/2 solidus. ⟦for the dikes of Sepho and Leonidou, […] solidus⟧ With the lord Apphouas, chartularius, as follows: for the reservoir of Leon, 1 solidus, for Matreou, 1 solidus, total 2 solidi. With the lord Anoup, chartularius, as follows: for the settlement (?) of Phakra through Victor, pronoetes, 1 solidus, ⟦for the people from Phakra, 1 solidus,⟧ for the people from Nike, 1 solidus, for the reservoir of Pera, 1 solidus. [verso, column 2] With the lord Martyrios, chartularius, as follows: for Parthenias, 1 solidus. With Victor, chartularius, as follows: for last year's reservoir of the people from Ophis, 1 solidus. With the lord Ioustos, chartularius, as follows: for the reservoir of Skytalitis, 1 solidus, for the reservoir of Apelles, 1 solidus. With the lord Menas, chartularius, as follows: for the reservoir of Kathegetes, 1 solidus. Must be investigated. For the dikes of Senokomis, […] solidus

A chartularius was a clerk or official handling records and funds; the word laccus here means a water reservoir or cistern. The recto contained a 5-line protocol (sheet heading) that is lost.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Protocol: Account of Money Payments). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.

Account

Papyri.info — APIS (Advanced Papyrological Information System) — papyri · uninventoried · Late 6th century · Oxyrhynchus

A sheet consisting of two selides so joined that the recto of one coincides with the verso of the other. On one side (recto) a protocol in 5 lines. On the other an account of money payments to certain chartularii for various purposes, often for dikes or reservoirs.

p.oxy.16.2035

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · spätes VI · Oxyrhynchos

[r] [… 5 lines lost …] [v,1] […] ὑπὲρ τῶν ἀπὸ Φάκρα νόμισμα α, ὑπὲρ χωμάτων Σεφὼ καὶ Λεωνίδου νομισμα παρὰ τῷ κυρίῳ Ἰωάννῃ χαρτουλαρίῳ οὕτως· ὑπὲρ τῶν ἀπὸ Λεωνίδου νομισμα , ὑπὲρ Τερύθεως νομίσματα β, ὑπὲρ Τακόνα διὰ πιττακίου νόμισμα α, ὑπὲρ λάκκου Ἰσίου Παγκᾶ νόμισμα α, ὑπὲρ τῆ…