Account of money
An account of money.
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 1414
Account of money including payments for pigments and rent of a holding at Memphis TM 1414Kharabet el Gerza (ancient Philadelphia)mid 3rd c. B.C.
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A fragmentary money account from the Zenon archive, listing payments for white lead, red ochre and other pigments, and a sum given to Iason toward the rent of a cleruchic holding at Memphis farmed by Artemidoros son of Sochares. The total comes to 143 silver drachmas plus 4 drachmas 5 obols in copper. It dates to the mid 3rd century BC, probably from Philadelphia in the Fayum.
In English machine translation
[column 1]
[…]
[…] 2 1/4 (?) obols
[…] writes […]
[…] into the
[…]
[…] the price
[…] the rent […] 100, 49 drachmas 5 obols
[…] the
[…] 5 minas (?), 10 drachmas
[column 2]
and for white lead [minas] … 6 drachmas
and others for white lead and red ochre and the other pigments 27 drachmas 5 obols
and in copper 4 drachmas 5 obols
and to Iason for the rent due on the cleruchic holding at Memphis which Artemidoros son of Sochares farms, which must be recovered from him […]
Total in silver 143 drachmas […]
in copper 4 drachmas 5 obols
[column 3]
from […]
[…]
[…]
2 from […]
… from […]
The ekphorion is rent paid in kind or money on a kleros, a plot allotted to a soldier-settler. The figure 'μν' read as minas is uncertain; the pigments listed were likely for painting work.
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.4.59789
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