Heidelberger Gesamtverzeichnis der griechischen Papyrusurkunden Ägyptens

English translation

(Translation: from P.Oxy. 6) To Valerius Ammonianus also called Gerontius, logistes of the Oxyrhynchite nome, from Aurelius Artemidorus son of Arsinotis, of the illustrious and most illustrious city of Oxyrhynchus, a painter by profession. In reply to the request of your grace for an inspection of the places requiring painting in the public bath of the said city now auspiciously under repair at the warm baths of Trajanus Hadrianus, I hereby declare that for the painting of the parts requiring it—of the two cold water conductors, and one vapour-bath, and the entrances and exits of the entire colonnade, and four passages round the vapour-bath in the outer colonnade, and the other places—there is required for cost of paint ... thousand denarii of silver, and of the ... painting of the whole work ten thousand denarii of silver; which I therefore report. The consulship of Caecinius Sabinus and Vettius Rufinus the most illustrious, . .. (Signed) I, Aurelius Artemidorus, have presented the report. I, Aurelius... on wrote for him, being illiterate.