Account of money
An account of money.
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 1416
Account of money received, including beer and grain payments TM 1416Kharabet el Gerza (ancient Philadelphia)mid 3rd c. B.C.
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Fragmentary account of money received from various people, including payment for grain, a basket of money brought from Herakleopolis, and sums from a coppersmith and a beer-shop. It belongs to the Zenon archive, mid-3rd century BC, probably from Philadelphia in the Fayum.
In English machine translation
[… lines lost …]
From Timaios, the remainder of the price of the 200 artabas, 50 drachmas 5 obols.
6 (?) from the basket brought from Herakleopolis, in which 200 drachmas.
From Komon the coppersmith, for beer, 2 drachmas.
From Hedylos, from the beer-shop, 7 drachmas 3 obols.
From Stephanos, for barley which you measured out from […] 2 1/2 1/8 (?), at 1 drachma 1 obol, 3 drachmas 3 chalkoi.
[…]… of Cheilon …[…]
[…] 1 drachma 1 1/2 obols
[…] 1 drachma […]
[…] his donkey-driver
[…] Herakleopolis
[…] 157 drachmas
[…] 5 drachmas
[…] from grain 20 drachmas
[…]… from the […]
[…] total …
The opening lines are lost and the lower part is badly damaged, so the total cannot be read. Some fractional quantities in the barley entry are uncertain.
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.4.59791
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