Order for Payment
Order for payment of 1 silver drachme
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 41939
Order to a business agent to pay one drachma to Hermes TM 41939UnknownIst century A.D.
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A short ostracon order for payment in which Psenobastis son of Paetes instructs the business agent Philas to pay one silver drachma to Hermes son of Ptolemaios. It dates to the 1st century AD.
In English machine translation
Psenobastis son of Paetes to Philas son of Anepolinas, business agent, greetings. Give to Hermes son of Ptolemaios 1 silver drachma, total 1. Year […], Hathyr 14.
The Greek term pragmateutes denotes a business agent or manager acting on behalf of another. The regnal year number 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 Order for Payment). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
o.mich.1.18
Ψενοβάστις Παέτης Φιλᾷ Ἀνηπολινᾶ πραγματευτῇ χαίρειν. δὸς Ἑρμῇ Πτολεμαίου ἀργυρίου δραχμὴν α, γίνεται α. ἔτους […] Ἁθὺρ ιδ.