Fragment of current account
A fragment of a current account.
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 1328
Fragment of a current account with payments to workmen and for a vineyard TM 1328Kharabet el Gerza (ancient Philadelphia)mid 3rd c. B.C.
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Fragment of a running cash account from Philadelphia in the Fayum, mid 3rd century BC, recording balances carried over, sums received and payments day by day in Mesore and the epagomenal days. Payments go to workmen, to Theopompos for a cloak for Charmos, for pack animals and donkey-drivers, and to Zabdaios for workmen weeding a 60-aroura vineyard.
In English machine translation
Mesore […]
to each per day 1 1/2 obols, total 3 obols; for days […]
To Theopompos for Charmos, price of a cloak, for the 24th, 14 drachmas
Total 20 drachmas 1/2 1/4 obol; remainder 2 drachmas 3 obols 3 chalkoi
[…] carried over from the account 2 drachmas 3 obols 3 chalkoi, and
there came in 8 drachmas 1 obol 3 chalkoi
Total 10 drachmas 4 1/2 1/4 obols, of which:
to workmen 2 drachmas 3 1/2 1/4 obols
and hire of pack animals
[…] donkey-drivers […]
[…]
Total […] 2 obols 1 chalkous; remainder […]
[…] carried over from the account 7 drachmas 1 obol 7 chalkoi
and there came in 8 drachmas 3 obols
Total 15 drachmas 4 obols 7 chalkoi, of which:
to workmen 2 drachmas 3 1/2 1/4 obols
to Zabdaios for workmen
[…] 12 drachmas
[…]
carried over from the account […]
and there came in 10 drachmas
Total 10 drachmas 1 obol 1 chalkous, of which:
to workmen 2 drachmas 3 1/2 1/4 obols
to Zabdaios 1 drachma
Total 3 drachmas 3 1/2 1/4 obols; remainder 6 drachmas 3 obols 3 chalkoi
Epagomenal days […]
carried over from the account 6 drachmas 3 obols 3 chalkoi
and there came in 15 drachmas 1/2 1/4 obol
Total 22 drachmas 4 obols 1 chalkous, of which:
to workmen 2 drachmas 3 1/2 1/4 obols
to Zabdaios for the workmen
who are weeding
in the 60-aroura vineyard
[…]
Each entry follows a pattern: balance brought forward, new income, total, then expenditures and the remainder. The 60-aroura vineyard was a large estate vineyard, likely part of the estate of Apollonios managed by Zenon.
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 current 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.4.59701
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