Money account
Money account, perhaps a commercial agent on board a Nile boat, concerning 1,000 copper drachmai that the writer has received, and of which 701 have been repaid in various transactions
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 1961
Money account of payments for goods and river freight TM 1961Arsinoites (?)248 or 247 B.C.
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A money account, perhaps kept by a commercial agent travelling on the Nile, reckoning 1,000 copper drachmas paid to Theogenes in Alexandria against payments made at Kanopos, Alexandria, and for freight from Krokodilopolis via Ptolemais to Kerke, leaving a balance of about 298 drachmas. It also notes wax and wool received, and dates to 248-247 BC, probably from the Arsinoite nome.
In English machine translation
[recto]
We have received the 1,000 copper drachmas which you paid to Theogenes in Alexandria.
Against this you have:
what Dromon (paid) in Kanopos, 180 silver drachmas;
and in Alexandria, of Asklepiades, what Epharmostos […], 140 silver drachmas;
[…] which he measured out […] choes […] at 1 obol 1 1/2 (each), total 320 silver drachmas.
[…]
[…] 2 drachmas
[when] from Krokodilopolis […]
[…] to those from the mouth […]
[…] to the boat […]
and freight to Ptolemais […]
and from Ptolemais to Kerke […]
Total 645 silver drachmas, which makes […]
at the rate for 4 drachmas, [695 drachmas 4 1/2 obols]
6 copper drachmas 1 obol
Total, 701 copper drachmas 5 1/2 obols.
Remainder 298 drachmas 1/2 obol.
And Mikion received 20 minas of wax, 16 drachmas 2 obols.
And in year 38 he has 15 minas of wool, 30 drachmas,
and what we arranged with Hieron, another 15 minas, 30 drachmas.
[verso]
…
Silver sums are converted into copper at a rate, a common feature of 3rd-century BC Ptolemaic accounting. Year 38 is of Ptolemy II, matching the date.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Money Account). 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.mich.1.61
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