Account of money
An account of money. The total shows that the account is incomplete.
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 1418
Daily account of money by month, Mecheir to Pachon TM 1418Kharabet el Gerza (ancient Philadelphia)mid 3rd c. B.C.
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A day-by-day account of money received or paid over the months Mecheir to Pachon, with monthly totals and a grand total of 990 drachmas, of which 336 were in bronze. It belongs to the Zenon archive from Philadelphia in the Fayum, mid 3rd century BC.
In English machine translation
[column 1]
[Year …], Mecheir […] para[…]
[…] […] drachmas
[…] in silver […] drachmas
… in silver […] drachmas
[…]2, in silver … drachmas
[…]7, in silver …7 drachmas
[Total] 102
Phamenoth […], 5[2] drachmas
[…], 12 drachmas
[…], in silver 22 drachmas
[…], in silver 28 drachmas
[…]4, in silver 26 drachmas
[…]1, in silver 22 drachmas
30, in silver 50 drachmas
Total 212
Pharmouthi 6, 20 drachmas
9, in silver 24 drachmas
[column 2]
12, in silver […]
15, in silver […]
21, in silver […]
25, in silver […]
26, in silver 20 drachmas
30, does not bring 26
but so that it is 158, less 26
Total 132
in silver ⟦…⟧ drachmas
Pachon 4, 18 drachmas
8, in silver 18 drachmas
9, in silver 8 drachmas
11, in silver 4 drachmas
16, in silver 16 drachmas
19, in silver 14 drachmas
22, in silver 26 drachmas
26, in silver 14 drachmas
30, in silver 10 drachmas
Total 128
Grand total 990 drachmas, of which
in bronze 336 drachmas
The monthly totals surviving (102 + 212 + 132 + 128 = 574) fall short of the grand total of 990, so the account is incomplete. Entries distinguish payments in silver from those in bronze coinage.
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.4.59793
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