Account of money
An account of money.
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 1411
Account of expenses for donkey-drivers, fodder and oil TM 1411Kharabet el Gerza (ancient Philadelphia)mid 3rd c. B.C.
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Fragment of a small money account listing daily expenses, including payments to two donkey-drivers, hay and barley for two donkeys, castor oil, and a payment to Nikanor. It comes from the Zenon archive at Philadelphia in the Fayum, mid-3rd century BC.
In English machine translation
[… lines lost …]
[…] 2 1/2 obols
[…] 1 1/2 obols
[…] 1 1/2 obols
to 2 donkey-drivers 1 1/2 1/4 obols
for 2 donkeys
hay 1/2 obol
and barley 1/4 obol
castor oil 1 obol 1 chalkous
to Nikanor 1 obol
(total) 1 drachma 5 obols 1 chalkous
Towards what I receive from the eighth
for the expenditure 1 drachma 2 1/2 obols
"kiki" is castor oil, commonly used for lamps. "From the eighth" probably refers to the eighth day of the month.
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.4.59786
[… ? lines lost …] […]…α ὀβολοὶ β 𐅵 […]…καρο[…]ι ὀβολὸς α 𐅵 […]πλητ[…]ι ὀβολὸς α 𐅵 ὀνηλάταις δυσὶν ὀβολὸς α 𐅵 δ ὄνοις δυσὶ χόρτος ἡμιωβέλιον καὶ κριθὴ ὀβολοῦ τέταρτον κίκι ὀβολὸς χαλκοῦς 1 Νικάνορι ὀβολὸς δραχμὴ α πεντώβολον χαλκοῦς 1 εἰς ὃ λαμβάνω ἀπὸ ὀγδόης εἰς τὸ ἀνήλωμα δραχμ…