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Receipt of Panakestor for his monthly salary from the Memphis bank TM 1526Memphis20. Juli - 18. Aug. 256 v.Chr.

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A receipt written twice on the same sheet, in which Panakestor, the official in charge of dispatches, acknowledges receiving his monthly salary for Daisios of year 30 from Poseidonios, the banker at Memphis, on the authority of a voucher from Apollonios. It dates to summer 256 BC and comes from Memphis.

In English machine translation

In the reign of Ptolemy son of Ptolemy Soter, year 30, month of Daisios. Panakestor, the official in charge of dispatches, acknowledges that he has received from Poseidonios, the banker in Memphis, in accordance with the voucher from Apollonios, out of the allowance being paid, his salary for Daisios of year 30, 300 drachmas. In the reign of Ptolemy son of Ptolemy Soter, year 30, month of Daisios. Panakestor, the official in charge of dispatches, acknowledges that he has received from Poseidonios, the banker in Memphis, in accordance with the voucher from Apollonios, out of the allowance being paid by Apollonios, his salary for Daisios of year 30, two hundred drachmas. Panakestor acknowledges that he has received in accordance with this voucher.

The two copies disagree on the sum: the first gives 300 drachmas (written as a numeral), the second 200 drachmas written out in words. Apollonios is presumably the finance minister of Ptolemy II, and Daisios is a Macedonian month.

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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 20. Juli - 18. Aug. 256 v.Chr. · Memphis

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