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Account of payment due to encaustic painters for work on a house TM 1388Kharabet el Gerza (ancient Philadelphia)About 255 - 254 B.C.

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An account of the sum due to the encaustic painters Artemidoros and Demetrios for decorating an exedra and two rooms with their doorframes under a contract let by the architect Hedylos. It records payments already made through the bank of Artemidoros and the pigments and wax supplied to them, which were to be deducted. It comes from the Zenon archive at Philadelphia, about 255-254 BC.

In English machine translation

[recto, column 1] To Artemidoros and Demetrios, encaustic painters. You are to receive, according to the contract which Hedylos the architect let out for the exedra and the […] of the first and the second (room?) together with the doorframes, you supplying everything yourselves except pitch and bitumen, 88 drachmas; of which you have received through the bank of Artemidoros: in Pachon 20 drachmas, Pauni 21, 20 drachmas. Of colours which you have received: [column 2] white lead […] wax […] and […] 7 1/2 minas at 3 1/4 obols each, [makes 4 drachmas 3 chalkoi] blue, 1 mina […] violet (?) […] basket […] and from the […] which you received […] and did not buy […] […] […] […] [… lines lost …] [verso] [6 deleted lines lost] From Theopompos, 8 drachmas

Encaustic painters (enkautai) worked with pigments in hot wax. Because the painters were to supply their own materials, the value of materials given to them was deducted from their fee of 88 drachmas.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Account concerning house - painting). 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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Account concerning house-painting

Papyri.info — APIS (Advanced Papyrological Information System) — papyri · JE51617 · About 255 - 254 B.C. · Kharabet el Gerza (ancient Philadelphia)

One of a series of fragmentary accounts concerning the woodwork and painting of a large house, possibly belonging to Diotimos. The text is a statement of the sum due to the encaustic painters Artemidoros and Demetrios for their work on the exedra and two rooms, of the sums which…

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Fragment of account

Papyri.info — APIS (Advanced Papyrological Information System) — papyri · JE51620 · About 255 - 254 B.C. · Kharabet el Gerza (ancient Philadelphia)

One of a series of fragmentary accounts concerning the woodwork and painting of a large house, possibly belonging to Diotimos.

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p.cair.zen.4.59763

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · Philadelphia (Arsinoites)

[r,1] πρὸς Ἀρτεμίδωρον καὶ Δημήτριον ἐγκαυτάς. δεῖ ὑμᾶς λαβεῖν κατὰ τὴν ἀπέγδοσιν ἣν ἐποιήσατο Ἡδύλος ὁ ἀρχιτέκτων τῆς ἐξέδρας καὶ τοῦ […]…[…] τοῦ πρώτου καὶ τοῦ δευτέρου σὺν τοῖς θυρώμασιν, ἑαυτοῖς πάντα παρεχόμενοι χωρὶς πίσσης καὶ ἀσφάλτου δραχμὰς πη ὧν ἔχετε διὰ τῆς Ἀρτεμιδώρ…

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p.cair.zen.4.59764

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · Philadelphia (Arsinoites)

[r] ἄλλος λόγος πρὸς Ἀρτεμίδωρον. δεῖ σε λαβεῖν θυρίδων κοιλοστάθμων μονοπροσώπων σὺν σταθμοῖς ιη πρ[…] καὶ ἄλλων διπροσώπων β γίνονται κ τὴν θυρίδα δραχμὰς θ τριώβολον γίνονται δραχμαὶ ρϙ. εἰς τοῦτο ἔχεις κατὰ τὴν γραφὴν τὴν παρὰ Ἀπολλοδώρου ψιμιθίου μνῶν ε δ η ἀνὰ α ἡμιωβέλιον …

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p.cair.zen.4.59765

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · Philadelphia (Arsinoites)

ἄλλος λόγος πρὸς Σεμθέα. δεῖ σε λαβεῖν κατὰ τὴν ἀπέγδοσιν ἣν ἐποιήσατο Ἡδύλος ὁ ἀρχιτέκτων […]κτονι […]ν λοιπὸν τῆς […]ς ἠργολα[…] τεκτονικῶν […]…[…] ὀβολὸς