Fragment of an account
A number of small fragments of accounts, written on both sides of the papyrus.
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 1175
Fragments of an account of issues of liquid and payments TM 1175Kharabet el Gerza (ancient Philadelphia)About 258 B.C. (?)
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Small fragments of an account, probably of oil or another liquid measured in choes and kotylai, recording issues to various people, including Agathon the fuller for a gaunakes and a cloak and Helenos for wax salve at Krokodilopolis. The fragments belong to the Zenon archive of about 258 BC.
In English machine translation
[A]
[…] to the people of Amyntas, 2 choes 4 kotylai
[…] of what was stored away, 6 kotylai
[B]
[…] to Agathon the fuller, which he received, 20
[…] 30, for a gaunakes
[C]
⟦3, to Agathon for a chlamys […]⟧
[D]
In Krokodilopolis
17, Helenos for wax salve […]
[E]
To Peristera 1 chous, Phi[…]
The records disagree on place: one gives the Delta, another Philadelphia in the Fayum. A gaunakes is a thick woollen cloak or blanket with long pile, and a chlamys is a short cloak.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Fragments of an account). 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.cair.zen.4.59539
[A] […]τοῖς παρʼ Ἀμύντου χόες β κοτύλαι δ […]τῶν ἀποτεταμιευμένων κοτύλαι ϛ [B] […]Ἀγάθωνι γναφεῖ ὃ ἔλαβεν κ […]κου λ εἰς γαυνάκην [C] [D] ἐν Κροκοδίλων πόλει ιζ Ἕλενος εἰς κηρωτὴν […] [E] Περιστερᾶι χοῦς α, Φι[…]