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Opening of a receipt issued by Calpurnius Horion, a Roman knight and Alexandrian councillor, through his agent Calpurnius Eusebius, to Sarapion, a banker of a money-changing bank, acknowledging a payment. It was written at Oxyrhynchus around AD 268-269.
A kollybistic bank was a money-changing bank dealing in coin exchange. The 'lord's account' (kyriakos logos) probably refers to the private account of the issuer as master of the estate.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Receipt). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
Καλπούρνιος Ὡρίων ἱππεὺς Ῥωμαίων νεωκόρος τοῦ μεγάλου Σαράπιδος ἐξηγητεύσας βουλευτὴς τῆς λαμπροτάτης πόλεως τῶν Ἀλεξανδρέων καὶ ὡς χρηματίζει διʼ ἐμοῦ Καλπουρνίου Εὐσεβίου […]… Σαραπίωνι τραπεζίτῃ κολλυβιστικῆς τραπέζης χαίρειν. ἔσχον παρὰ σοῦ […]…ον τῷ κυριακῷ λόγῳ ἀκο[…]…ου Αἰ…
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