One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 9268
Komarchs of Karanis acknowledge payment for tunics and cloaks supplied to the state TM 9268Karanis (Arsinoites)ca. 302 (?)
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Declaration by two komarchs (village headmen) of Karanis to the strategos of the Arsinoite nome, Aurelius Achilleus also called Ptollarion, acknowledging payment from the public bank for tunics and cloaks they had supplied by order of the procurator Annius Diogenes. The total was 11 talents of silver, minus a deduction of 6 1/2 percent; it dates to around AD 302.
In English machine translation
To Aurelius Achilleus also called Ptollarion, strategos of the Arsinoite nome,
from the Aurelii Peeous son of Ptolemaios and Antonios son of Antonios, both komarchs of the village of Karanis in the Arsinoite nome.
By order of the most eminent procurator Annius Diogenes we have been paid by the bankers of the public funds of the nome, on your instruction, for the price of the tunics with two stripes which we supplied […] at 4,000 drachmas each, the total […] at 4,000 drachmas each, and of large cloaks […]
[…] of silver […]
together 11 talents of silver, from which are deducted for the hundredths six and a half, and it was added in the imperial accounts
[…] of the silver […]
[…]
The garments were probably requisitioned clothing for the army, paid at fixed prices. The 'hundredths' (hekatostai) were a percentage deduction from the payment.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below. It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
chrest.wilck.186
Αὐρηλίῳ Ἀχιλλεῖ τῷ καὶ Πτολλαρίωνι στρατηγῷ Ἀρσινοΐτου παρὰ Αὐρηλίων Πεηοῦτος Πτολεμέου καὶ Ἀντωνίου Ἀντωνίου ἀμφοτέρων κωμαρχῶν κώμης Καρανίδος τοῦ Ἀρσινοΐτου νομοῦ. κατὰ κέλευσιν τοῦ διασημοτάτου ἐπιτρόπου Ἀννίου Διογένους ἠριθμήθημεν παρὰ τῶν τοῦ νομοῦ δημοσίων χρημάτων τραπεζ…