Fragmentary bank account from Herakleopolis recording transfers and payments in talents and drachmas between named persons, including clothing sellers, scribes, tax farmers, bankers and other officials and tradesmen. A column of figures precedes a column of entries listing payers and payees.
In English machine translation
[part a]
[col 1]
[…] ⟦1,620⟧
[…] 100
[…] 2,700
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[…] 55
[…] 1,000
[…] 310
[…] 2,500
[…] 200
[…] 1 talent
[…] 3,400 3,400
[…]
[…] 660
[…] 100
[…] 120
[…] 470
[…] 3,000
[…]
[…]
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[…] 5 talents 1,650
[…] 15
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[…] 3 talents 3,490
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[col 2]
[…] talents […] talents […]
To Horos son of Poimen, Ar[…]
⟦Of Horos son of Poimen, Ar…⟧
Of Achilleus, oik[…] […] to Theon […]
Of Harmodios, which Horos son of Poimen […]
bank […]
purchase […]
Of Tothoes, clothing seller, Heliodo[…] […]
receipts: 10(+) talents […]
47 talents 1,800 […]
remainder: […] talents […]
[…]
[…]
[…]
[…]
To Diodoros, Pole[…]
To Hermodoros son of Hermodoros […]
To Phimois, clothing seller, Artemid[…] […]
Of Herieus son of Petoys […]
Semtheus, grain […]
To Protarchos […]
To Phebnas, ibis keeper, of Asklapon […]
Of Asklapon, potter, to Phebnas […]
Of Semtheus, from Pesouris the royal scribe […]
To Isidoros […]
To Ischyrion, scribe […]
Of Apollonios, banker, to Ischyrion, scribe of the enkyklion tax
To Sarapion, from Pl[…]
To Protarchos son of Heliodoros, scribe […]
[…] of the remaining […] until […]
⟦[…]⟧ 7 talents […]
[part b]
To Protarchos son of Heliodoros, Hera[…] […]
[…] and to him gold (?) […]
[…] collector, to him 740 […]
To Semtheus, garland weaver […]
To Dionysios son of Alexandros, scribe; to Euandros, which to Philainetos […]
To Alexandros; to Antiochos son of Antiochos […]
[…] 1 talent 2,[…] […]
To Philopoimen; to Pathemis the younger […]
To Alexandros son of Alexandros, Hera[…] […]
To Dionysios, village scribe, to him […]
To Horos son of Harendotes, clothing seller; to Theodotos son of Nysos, Herma[…] […]
To […]ikon, grain dealer; to Melas, dye seller […]
Of Lagos, collector, to Herakleios, tax farmer […]
and to Theon, tax farmer […]
and to Kephalon, controller […]
[…] clothing […]
To Asklepiades, Hera[…]; to Theon, clothing seller, which to Theodoros […]
To Amyntas, assistant, to him […]
To […]eios, tax farmer of fullers (?), he himself […]
To Herakleides, scribe of the enkyklion tax; of Amyntas, assistant […]
⟦[…] assistant, to Herakleides, scribe of the enkyklion tax, 1,900⟧ […]
Nikanor and of Apollonios, to Hermias […]
To Nikanor and of Apollonios, to Herakleides […]
To Karyandros son of Theon, scribe; to Theon son of Seriphos […]
To Apollonios, the one in tow (?); to Bion son of Dositheos […]
To Apollonios, banker; to Ptolemaios son of Ptolemaios […]
Of Ptolemaios son of Ptolemaios, to Apollonios, banker, 5 talents […]
To Herakleides, agent, 3 talents […]
To Pantheros, cobbler, which to Cho the liturgist […]
To Ptolemaios son of Apollon(ios) from Elbonthis […]
⟦[…]ros, to him⟧ […]
[…]ros […]
To Apollonios, the one in tow (?); to Kyros son of Ap[…] […]
[…] in tow (?)
[…] to Kyros and Sarapion […]
[…] collector, to Apion […]
[…]
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The document is the recto of the second Cologne roll from a Herakleopolite bank archive; amounts are in bronze talents and drachmas. The enkyklion was a tax on sales and transfers of property; the sense of ephelkomenos here 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 Das Recto der zweiten Kölner Rolle). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.