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Order to public bankers to pay half-freight to boatmen carrying estate wheat TM 78598Oxyrhynchos

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Copy of an order from Claudius Herodes, strategos of the Oxyrhynchite nome, countersigned by the royal scribe Hermaios, instructing the public bankers Theon and partners to pay boatmen of Oxyrhynchus half the freight charge for carrying imperial estate wheat to Neapolis. A list of eleven boatmen with their loads and payments follows, totalling 752 drachmas 3 obols, dated in year 2 of Vespasian.

In English machine translation

Copy. Claudius Herodes, strategos of the Oxyrhynchite nome, to Theon and partners, public bankers of the same nome, greetings. Pay, with Hermaios the royal scribe joining in the instruction, to the undersigned ferrymen (?) from the city of Oxyrhynchus, on their mutual guarantee, the half-freight of the originally fixed freight charge of 35 drachmas per 100 artabas, on condition that they deliver to Neapolis at their own risk the estate wheat to be loaded onto their boats by Claudius Theon, clean of all adulteration. The amounts of the half-freight for what they load, excluding the customary extra charges (?) […]: to Kilikas son of P[…], of a capacity of 530 artabas, 500 artabas, 87 drachmas 3 obols to Herakleos son of Herakleos, of a capacity of 530 artabas, 500 artabas, 87 drachmas 3 obols to Harpalos son of Harpalos, of 318 artabas, 300 artabas, 52 drachmas 3 obols to Amois son of […], of 318 artabas, 300 artabas, 52 drachmas 3 obols to Sarapion son of […], of 371 artabas, 350 artabas, 61 drachmas 1 obol to Papontos son of Syros, of 318 artabas, 300 artabas, 52 drachmas 3 obols to Horos son of […]chos, of 212 artabas, 200 artabas, 35 drachmas to Hera[…], of 212 artabas, 200 artabas, 35 drachmas to Lo[…], of 318 artabas, 300 artabas, 52 drachmas 3 obols to Hermouthis son of Damarion, of 424 artabas, 400 artabas, 70 drachmas to Dionysios son of Dionysios, Sapron (?), of 318 artabas, 300 artabas, 52 drachmas 3 obols Total 752 drachmas 3 obols, from which deduct the percentages customarily added to the imperial account, and receive from them the appropriate receipt. Year 2 of Imperator Caesar Vespasian Augustus, Tybi […], the day of Augustus. […]

"Estate wheat" (ousiakos) is grain from imperial estates; Neapolis is probably the harbour district of Alexandria. Payments are calculated at 35 drachmas per 100 artabas on half the cargo, the listed capacities (e.g. 530) including a surcharge over the net load (500).

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Instructions from the Strategus to a Banker). 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.66.4526

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text

ἀντίγραφον. Κλαύδιος Ἡρώδης στρατηγὸς Ὀξυρυγχίτου Θέωνι καὶ μετόχοις δημοσίων τραπεζίταις τοῦ αὐτοῦ νομοῦ χαίρειν. χρηματίσατε συνεπιστέλλοντος Ἑρμαίου βασιλικοῦ γραμματέως τοῖς ὑπογεγραμμένοις διεραματίταις ἀπʼ Ὀξυρύγχων πόλεως ἐξ ἀλληλεγγύης ἡμίναυλον τοῦ ἀρχῆθεν ὡρισμένου ναύλ…