One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 1421

Fragment of an account with sums in talents TM 1421Kharabet el Gerza (ancient Philadelphia)mid 3rd c. B.C.

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A small fragment of an account from the Zenon archive at Philadelphia in the Fayum, mid-3rd century BC. It records large sums in talents for the months Phaophi and Tybi, mentions produce and payments, and names a Herakleides.

In English machine translation

[…] […] of the self-financed (?) […] […] for the needs in the […] […]pedon (?) […] 5,545 (?), of which in Phaophi 62 talents 587 […] […] 4,695 (?), in Tybi 9 talents 4[…] […] of the (sums) paid out (?) […] […] is reported […] […] of the produce […] […] from Herakleides […] […] Herakleides […] […]

The sums are unusually large, raising doubt whether the fragment belongs to the later Ptolemaic period when accounting was in copper. The meaning of 'autotelon' (self-paying or tax-free) here is uncertain.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Fragment of 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.

Fragment of account

Papyri.info — APIS (Advanced Papyrological Information System) — papyri · uninventoried · mid 3rd c. B.C. · Kharabet el Gerza (ancient Philadelphia)

A fragment of an account. The sums mentioned are unusually large, so as to raise a doubt whether the fragment may not belong to the later Ptolemaic period when the copper standard had come into use.

p.cair.zen.4.59796

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · Mitte III v.Chr. · Kharabet el Gerza (ancient Philadelphia)

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