Account of Money
Account of money in two or more cols.; no statement of the purpose is preserved
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 10486
Account of money payments, including prices of lentils TM 10486Karanis (Arsinoites)310 CE – 320 CE
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A money account in at least two columns from Karanis, listing individuals with sums in drachmas, several entered as the price of lentils. It dates to about AD 310-320.
In English machine translation
[Column 1]
[…] …
[…]athyr(?) … drachmas …
[…] … drachmas 2,000
[…] … drachmas …
[…] … drachmas …
[… 10 lines lost …]
[…] … drachmas …
[…] drachmas …
[Column 2]
Account … […] … Anouphis …
Heron son of Heron, price of lentils, 700 drachmas
Heron son of Aion, price of lentils, 700 drachmas
and Paulos son of Alexandros, drachmas …
Ouenaphris son of Paesios, 3,000 drachmas
slave Psamous, 600 drachmas
Heras son of Masikles, 3,000 drachmas
Serenos likewise, 3,500 drachmas
Palemon son of Thio…, 3,200 drachmas
Apollonios …, drachmas …
Horeion son of Chairemon, drachmas …
Total … 9,000(?) …
Another receipt …
The large drachma sums reflect the inflated currency of the early 4th century. In the second Heron entry the scribe deleted 600 and wrote 700.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Account of Money). 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.col.7.134
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