Fragment of account
A fragment of an account.
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 1347
Fragment of an account of expenses for horses and donkeys TM 1347Kharabet el Gerza (ancient Philadelphia)256 - 248 B.C.
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A fragment of an account from the Zenon archive at Philadelphia in the Fayum, listing small expenses for horses and donkeys, an iron implement and sweat-cloths for donkeys, and travel money given to a slave named Noumenios. It dates to 256-248 BC.
In English machine translation
[recto]
[column 1]
[… lines lost …]
Pauni […]
[column 2]
[… lines lost …]
[verso]
[column 1]
[… lines lost …]
[… 2 lines lost …]
for horses, 1 obol
for the donkeys from Hermogenes, 6
an iron implement for meat-cutting (?), 1
sweat-cloths for donkeys, 4, 1 (drachma) 4 obols
[column 2]
[… lines lost …]
[… 1 line lost …]
(deleted:) 21st (?), 5, for horses, 5 obols
to Noumenios the slave for expenses for travel and for themselves, 2 drachmas
transferred above
The recto text is crossed out, and the verso's second column was also deleted with the note that it had been 'transferred above'. The meaning of 'kreonomia' (meat distribution or cutting) for the iron item is uncertain.
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.4.59720
[r] [1] [2] [v] [1] [… ? lines lost …] [… 2 lines lost …] ἵπποις ὀβολὸς ὄνοις τοῖς παρὰ Ἑρμογένους ϛ σιδήριον εἰς κρεονομίαν α ἱδρῶια ὀνικὰ δ α τετρώβολον [2] [… ? lines lost …] [… 1 line lost …]