Part of a money account
Part of a money account, mentioning Aristandros as the oikonomos of the Arsinoite province, coupled with Python, the royal banker in Krokodilopolis, recipients of the Government dues paid through Zenon.
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 1201
Money account of silver and bronze sums paid to Aristandros and Python's bank TM 1201Kharabet el Gerza (ancient Philadelphia)About 250 B.C.
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Part of a money account from the Zenon archive recording sums in silver and bronze collected and paid, including money counted out at Philadelphia and money sent to Krokodilopolis. It names Aristandros, the financial administrator of the Arsinoite nome, his agent Proxenos, the retailer Horos, and the bank of Python, around 250 BC.
In English machine translation
[column 1]
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[column 2]
[…]or, as much as was collected
[…] of bronze 4448 drachmas
[…] at an exchange rate (agio) of 2 1/2 obols per stater, of silver 1594 drachmas 4 1/2 obols
and of bronze 687 drachmas 6 chalkoi
and Theodoros ⟦…⟧ of silver 2000 drachmas
from Sosos in Philadelphia, which Apollonios and Proxenos, the agent of Aristandros, counted out: of silver 504 drachmas
and what […]aios is conveying to Krokodilopolis: of bronze 1000 drachmas
Total: of silver 2504 drachmas
of bronze 1000 drachmas
and from the 400 drachmas which we entered in the margin (?) against Horos the retailer, he has it as paid to the agents of Aristandros and to the bank, but does not report it to us:
of bronze 30 drachmas
of these, to the bank of Python
of bronze […]
and […] Aristandros […]
[…]
[…]
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The epallage is the surcharge for exchanging bronze into silver, here 2 1/2 obols per stater. Aristandros was the oikonomos (financial manager) of the nome and Python the royal banker at Krokodilopolis.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Part of money 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.4.59567
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