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An account recording the daily issue of papyrus rolls to clerks such as Demetrios, Artemon and Pyron, for the accounts office, day-books and other uses, together with purchases of rolls through Diskos and Charmos. It was kept in the circle of Apollonios the finance minister and is part of the Zenon archive from Philadelphia, about 258-257 BC.
Dates use Macedonian months (Panemos, Loios, Gorpiaios). The logisterion was the accounts office; the purchase price of 3 1/2 obols per roll is recorded in column 2.
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 Distribution of Papyrus Rolls). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
Account of distribution of papyrus rolls, kept for an official in the retinue of Apollonios; it covers the distribution of papyrus for 3 months, when Zenon was on tour with Apollonios; the total of rolls used is 434 in 33 days
The recto of the first two fragments contains an account of papyrus rolls; on the verso in a different hand are scraps of a money account. The third fragment contains the date L�iou g, preceded by the 29th of Panemos.
[1,ctr] [… ? lines lost …] Πανήμου κα ἠγοράσθησαν διὰ Δίσκου χάρται ν ἀπὸ τούτων Δημητρίωι εἰς τὸ λογιστήριον ι χάρται ν ἀπὸ τούτων Δημητρίωι εἰς τὸ λογιστήριον ι κβ Ἀρτέμωνι δ Σωταίρωνι δ κδ Πύρωνι ὥστε εἰς ἐφημερίδας χάρτης α κε Δημητρίωι εἰς τὸ Νικάνορος χάρται ι κζ Πεισικλεῖ …
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