Fragment of account
A fragment of an account.
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 1317
Account with note on wages of park guards charged by Nikon and Addaios TM 1317Kharabet el Gerza (ancient Philadelphia)257 - 256 B.C.
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Fragment of an account from the Zenon archive listing payments in drachmas, including sums for the Arsinoeia festival, laborers' wages and produce such as olives and dates. The verso records that Nikon and Addaios charged in their account to Apollonios the wages of two park guards, Bargathes and Asklepiades, at 5 drachmas a month for six months, an entry Zenon did not accept in the household account.
In English machine translation
[recto, column 1]
[… 29 lines lost …]
[…] through Zenon, 2 drachmas 2 obols
[…] for the Arsinoeia, 32 drachmas
[…] of the Lake, wheat,
[…] to the laborers for hay.
[recto, column 2]
and what you still owe towards the […] ⟦from the […]⟧
and the amount by which you report less […]
or in the earlier account […]
[…] you will write the […]
of olives (?) […] which you have from Theon […]
and of dates
total 1156
⟦for the same […]⟧
[…] of Artemisios, to the laborers, wages […]
you have given to Patis […]
68 (?) […]
⟦…⟧
total ⟦1467⟧ drachmas
[…]
Nikanor […]
writes […]
[…]
[… 6 lines lost …]
[verso]
Nikon and Addaios enter, in the account drawn up by them for Apollonios,
to Bargathes and Asklepiades, guards of the park (paradeisos), from Pauni to Hathyr, and in Greek reckoning from Panemos to Apellaios ⟦Hyperberetaios⟧, 6 months,
to each 5 drachmas a month, total 60 drachmas.
Addaios reports (this) under Audnaios, which Zenon does not accept in the household account for him
under Hyperberetaios.
Some records give the place as Memphis (uncertain), while another gives Philadelphia in the Fayum. Months are given in both the Egyptian and the Macedonian calendars.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Fragment of 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.4.59690
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