Account of money
An account of money.
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 1410
Account of money payments to workers and others TM 1410Kharabet el Gerza (ancient Philadelphia)mid 3rd c. B.C.
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A short account of money listing sums owed by or paid to various individuals, including a quarryman, a carpenter and two scribes. It comes from the Zenon archive at Philadelphia in the Fayum, mid 3rd century BC.
In English machine translation
Not yet
Maron 21
Choirine
[…]
Midas 1
To Petenoubis, quarryman, 12
To Sokeis 2
To Nikolaos and Herakleides, the scribes, 1
Eutychos, not yet, 1
To Semphtheus, carpenter, 1
From Sokles must be collected 1 drachma 4 obols
Polykleitos 1 obol, 4 (?)
Artemon, towards the 50 drachmas, has 12 drachmas, 1/4 obol, 1 chalkous
Kallippos 4 drachmas
Theopompos 2 obols; Hippo 1/2 obol
Hedys[…] 1 obol; total … 3 1/2 obols
"Not yet" apparently marks people who had not yet paid or been paid. Some figures, such as the 4 after Polykleitos' obol, are of uncertain meaning.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Account of money). 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.4.59785
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