Memorandum
The text contains requests or demands regarding various financial matters.
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 18476
Fragment of a memorandum on payments and seed accounts TM 18476unknownThird century CE
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A fragment of a memorandum or set of instructions about financial matters, mentioning seed, sums of drachmas totalling 3,700, the issuing of the customary receipts, and an order to enter certain amounts in the accounts for the past 20th year. It probably dates to about AD 212-213.
In English machine translation
[...]
[...] ... [...]
[...] of seeds ... [...]
[...] four hundred drachmas, total [400 drachmas] [...]
[...] together 3,700 drachmas, receiving from [...]
[...] the customary documents (receipts).
[...] enter as income (?) on behalf of those [...]
[...] of the past 20th year, 3[...] drachmas [...]
[...] ... 8[...] drachmas [...]
[...] ... [...]
[...]
The verb lēmmatizein means to enter a sum as received in an account; the 'past 20th year' would fit the reign of Caracalla (with Septimius Severus), supporting the proposed date.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Memorandum). 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.leid.inst.1.51
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