One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 1830

Fragment of a money account with unit prices and totals TM 1830unbekannt261 BCE – 229 BCE

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Fragment of a Ptolemaic money account listing quantities at unit prices with their totals in drachmas and obols, mentioning the month Phamenoth. It dates to the mid-3rd century BC; only the right side of the columns survives.

In English machine translation

[a] […] of the […] with […] under […] Phamenoth 11 […] 2 1/2 obols. Total 1 (drachma?) 2 1/2 obols […] at 2 drachmas 1 1/2 obols […] total 25 (drachmas) 3 obols […] 1 drachma 4 obols. Total 3 (drachmas) 4 obols. […] […] at 2 drachmas. Total 31 drachmas. […] 3 (drachmas) 5 1/2 obols. […] at 2 drachmas 1 1/2 obols. Total 10 drachmas 3/4 obol […] 3/4 obol […] 6 at 2 drachmas. Total 12 drachmas. […] 8 at 2 drachmas 2 obols. Total 18 drachmas 4 obols. […] 3/4 obol […] at 1 drachma 2 obols. Total 8 (drachmas) 4 obols. […] 3/4 obol […] 2 drachmas 2 3/4 obols. […] total 67 drachmas 5 1/4 obols. [a, fragment] […] […] 1 1/4 obols. […]

The items being priced are lost; only rates and totals survive. The account is written across the fibres of the papyrus.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Small Fragments: Accounts Written across the Fibers). 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.col.4.117a

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · Mitte III v.Chr.

[a] […]ς τοῦ σὺν […]…ιαδι ὑπὸ […] Φαμενὼθ ια […]ος διώβολον ἡμιωβέλιον. γίνονται α διώβολον ἡμιωβέλιον […] ἀνὰ δραχμὰς β ὀβολὸν ἡμιωβέλιον […]γίνονται κε τριώβολον […] δραχμὴ α τετρώβολον. γίνονται γ τετρώβολον. […] […]ἀνὰ δραχμὰς β. γίνονται δραχμαὶ λα. […] γ πεντώβολον ἡμιωβέλι…