Fragment of account
A fragment of an account.
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 1422
Fragment of a money account TM 1422Kharabet el Gerza (ancient Philadelphia)mid 3rd c. B.C.
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A small fragment of a Greek money account from the Zenon archive, listing sums in talents, drachmas and obols calculated from base amounts of 10,000, 6,000 and 600, with a total. It dates to the mid-3rd century BC and comes from Philadelphia in the Fayum.
In English machine translation
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1 talent 1,666 drachmas 4 obols
of the 10,000: 1 talent 1,666 drachmas 4 obols
of the 6,000: ⟦5,000 drachmas⟧ 4,000 drachmas
of the 600: 444 drachmas 3 obols
Total: 1 talent 5,100 drachmas
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The phrases 'of the 10,000', 'of the 6,000' and 'of the 600' apparently refer to base sums from which fractions were calculated; the purpose is lost with the rest of the text. The scribe corrected 5,000 to 4,000 drachmas in one line.
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.
p.cair.zen.4.59797
[… ? lines lost …] τάλαντον α χξϛ τετρώβολον τῶν μυρίων α τάλαντον α χξϛ τετρώβολον τῶν Ϛ δραχμαὶ Δ τῶν χ δραχμαὶ υμδ τριώβολον γίνονται τάλαντον α δραχμαὶ Ερ [… ? lines lost …]