Money account and corn account
On the recto an account of payments in money for various kinds of work connected with the estate. The account on the verso is about deliveries of corn for seed.
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 1413
Money account for estate work and account of seed grain issues TM 1413Kharabet el Gerza (ancient Philadelphia)mid 3rd c. B.C.
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Estate accounts from the mid 3rd century BC, probably from Philadelphia in the Fayum. The recto lists money payments for labour such as earth-moving, digging with hoes, carrying chaff and transporting copper by boat from Memphis to Kirke; the verso records issues of barley and wheat as seed and rations to named cultivators and donkey-drivers.
In English machine translation
[recto]
[column 1]
[…] for the dykes (?), to spread earth, for 3 workmen at 2 obols each, makes 1 (drachma)
[…] for 10 draught animals at 3 obols each, makes 5 (drachmas)
[…] 10 (?) at 3 1/2 obols each, makes 5 (drachmas) 5 obols
[…] tax 5 obols
[…] for the copper 11 (drachmas) 4 obols
[…] to those who loaded the copper at Memphis onto the boat 1 (drachma) 1/4 obol
[…] 3 (?) for the draught animals 1 (drachma)
[…] 1 (drachma) 4 obols
[…] of the boat which carried the copper back from Memphis to Kirke, because Charmylos and his people did not have a boat, (drachmas) […]
[…] to the plasterer 1 (drachma) […]
[…]
[…]
[…] 3 […] at 1 obol each, [makes 3 obols]
[…] for workmen digging in the 1,000 (arouras), 16 at 1 obol each, makes 2 (drachmas) 3 obols
[deleted: […] for the olive grove 1 (drachma) 4 obols]
[…] to those bringing the chaff to the […]
[…] being 3, at 1 obol each, makes 3 obols
[…] to Asklepiades son of Thrasydoulos for 12 hoe-diggers at 1 obol each, [makes 2 (drachmas)]
[…] 1 (drachma) 3 1/2 obols
[…] son of Pais, of Memphis, for 10 hoe-diggers at 1 obol each, makes 1 (drachma) 4 obols
[…] for 22 hoe-diggers at 1 obol each, makes 3 (drachmas) 4 obols
[…] son of Samous, priest of Hermes, for 20 in the 1,000 (arouras) at 1 obol each, makes 3 (drachmas) 2 obols
[…] son of Stotoetis for 5 in the 1,000 (arouras), makes 5 obols
[…] son of […]psis for workmen in the 1,000 (arouras), 10 at 1 obol each, makes 1 (drachma) 4 obols
[…] of the bath-keeper (?) for about 20 tubs, makes 4 obols
[…] to workmen for the olive grove 1 (drachma) 4 obols
Total: drachmas […]
Total: […]
[column 2]
[…]
[verso]
[…]
[…] to […]on son of Hesperos, seed […] of barley 100 artabas
[…] son of Syros […]
[…] son of Syros 2 1/2 artabas
[…] son of Samous and to Pherenouthis
[…] of barley […] artabas
[…] for the land which he sows
[…] 20 artabas
[…] and to Herieumis son of Oteuris
[…] for the cultivation of the land
[…] 5 artabas
[…] to Apollonios and Dorion, donkey-drivers
[…] for the draught animals, a grain ration […]
[…] to the same […]
[…]
[…] grain ration of the
[…] to Kleitarchos, the one in charge of the
[…]
[…] to the man from Polemarchos
[…] of barley 15 artabas
[…] [deleted: and to Kassias, seed]
[…] and to Telemon son of Timarchos, seed
[…] [deleted: and to Laboïs son of Poklelis]
[deleted: […] 2 1/2 artabas] and to Patis for […] 7 and to Pherenouthis and Horos
[…] of the land, of barley 16 artabas
[…] to Telemon son of Timarchos for the land
[…] of barley 10 artabas and to Kassias
[…] 10 artabas and to Nikadas son of Antipatros
[…] of barley 2 artabas, of wheat 2 artabas, and to Onnophris
[…] of wheat […] artabas, of barley 10 artabas
[…]
[column 2]
[…]
12
13
to Nikanor […]
Pa[…]
"The 1,000 (arouras)" likely refers to the large estate of Apollonios the dioiketes at Philadelphia. The provenance from Philadelphia is marked as uncertain.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Money account and corn 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.
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