Receipt of Cloth
Receipt issued to a certain Perdiccas, for two pieces of linen
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 2018
Receipt for washed tow linen from Perdikkas TM 2018Philadelphia (Arsinoites)IIIrd century B.C.
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A short receipt acknowledging delivery from Perdikkas of washed linen made of tow, recorded by weight in minas with a total of 1 talent 15 1/2 minas. It comes from Philadelphia in the Arsinoite nome, mid-3rd century BC, and belongs to the Zenon archive milieu.
In English machine translation
Phaophi 16. We have received from Perdikkas washed tow linen, at 100 cubits (?) 4 [pieces] 1 (?), of which the weight is 40 1/2 minas,
and another, weight 35 minas.
Total: 1 talent 15 1/2 minas.
The figures in the measurement line (ρ δ α) are hard to interpret and the rendering is uncertain. The total works out as 40 1/2 + 35 = 75 1/2 minas, that is 1 talent (60 minas) and 15 1/2 minas.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Receipt of Cloth). 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.1.120
Φαῶφι ιϛ. ἔχομεν παρὰ Περδίκκου λίνον στυππέινον πεπλυμένον ἀνὰ πήχεις ρ δ α ὧν ὁλκὴ μναῖ μ 𐅵 καὶ ἕτερον ὁλκὴ μναῖ λε γίνεται τάλαντον α μναῖ ιε 𐅵