One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 121983
Account of receipts and expenditures for rope-makers, builders and household goods TM 121983From Hermopolite nomeIII or IV CE
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A fragmentary private or estate account from the Hermopolite nome, 3rd-4th century AD, listing receipts and expenditures in silver talents. Payments go to rope-makers, builders and the mistress of the house, and the second column records purchases of oil, pepper, pitch, pots and other goods.
In English machine translation
[Column 1]
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[…]
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[…] Tertonepa[…]
[…]
[…] from 6 talents […]
[…] to […]
[…]
[…] priest […]
[…] from 2,500 talents
[…] of receipts: 280,070 (?) talents of silver [silver] 110,020 talents
Of expenditure likewise as follows:
To Hellos, rope-maker, […] 16,800 talents of silver
To Apollonios […]
To the builders, silver […] talents […]
To Hellos, rope-maker, 44,500 talents
To Taurinos […] 44,500 talents
To Phoibadios, rope-maker, […] talents
To Taurinos likewise […]
25th, to Hatres, rope-maker, for the price of […] talents
Hathyr 28, for the price of […] 20,000 talents
Hathyr 30, for the price of […] 90,000 talents
Choiak 1, to the mistress of the house 20,000 talents
Total expenditure: 200,094 (?) talents of silver
Remainder, total: 70,007 (?) talents of silver
[Column 2]
Account […]
From […]
From Basilei[…]
[…]
From Latous […]
Total […]
Of expenditure […]
To Basilis, personally (?), for […]
price of pack-saddles […]
To Taesis, personally (?), for […]
price of oil […]
price of porridge […]
price of […]
price of fruit […]
price of dried fruit (?) […]
price of liquid pitch […]
price of a jar […]
price of platters with […]
[…] freight charge for these […]
price of pots […]
To Basilis, personally (?), for the price of […]
Choiak 7, price of […]
7th, price of relish […]
7th, price of pepper […]
7th, to the mistress of the house […]
price of oil […]
price of storax […]
price of oil […]
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Sums are in talents counted in myriads (units of 10,000), reflecting the high inflation of the period; several figures are uncertain. 'Mistress of the house' (oikodespoina) refers to the estate's female head.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as 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.
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