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Fragment of a wage account for years 28 and 29 TM 1723unbekannt

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A small fragment of an account of wages (opsonion) covering years 28 and 29 of an unnamed reign, with a deduction mentioned. Little more survives.

In English machine translation

The wages (opsonion) amount to […] of year 28 […] and of year 29 […] but after deducting the […] … […]

The volume belongs to the Zenon archive, so the regnal years are probably those of Ptolemy II (around 258/257 BC), but the fragment itself gives no ruler. Opsonion means a wage or allowance, often paid as provisions money.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below. 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.lond.7.2163

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text

γίνεται τὸ ὀψώνιον ι[…] τοῦ κη ἔτους κα…[…] καὶ τοῦ κθ ἔτους μη[…] ἀφαιρουμένου δὲ τοῦ[…] … [… ? lines lost …]