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Letter to Thonis about jars of money sent by boat TM 22117unbekannt284 - 304

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Business letter to Thonis listing four knidion jars of money sent by boat and via Herodes, one marked with an anchor and holding 40 talents, the others about 4 talents each, totalling 53 talents 4,500 drachmas. The sender asks for a quick reply on receipt.

In English machine translation

[recto] […] […] […] […] of the long (?) 4 knidia (jars), the 3 knidia sent to Herodes, the remaining knidion in our boat; and the marking of this same knidion, apart from our marking, has an anchor, containing 40 talents of silver, 40 talents. Of the others, one containing 4 talents and 5,600 drachmas of silver, 4 talents 5,600 drachmas; the second containing 4 talents and 2,400 drachmas of silver, 4 talents 2,400 drachmas; and the third containing 4 talents and 2,500 drachmas of silver, 4 talents 2,500 drachmas. Total of what was dispatched to you by my boat, which I sent, and through Herodes in the month of Pachon, all together: 53 talents 4,500 drachmas of silver. And if you receive them, write back to me quickly through him. And I sent on to you the […] by the boat of Dioskoros […] […] [… ? lines lost …] [verso] To my lord brother Thonis, son of Eunitaios (?)

A knidion was a type of jar, here used as a container for coin. The stated total does not exactly match the itemised sums, which add to 52 talents 4,500 drachmas.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Geldsendung). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.

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p.giss.univ.3.22

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 284 - 304

[r] […]ηδε[…]σαι κομ[…]σ…ε […]ενος τοῦ μακροῦ κνίδια τέσσαρα , τὰ μὲν τρία κνίδια σταλέντα Ἡρώδει, τὸ δὲ λοιπὸν κνίδιον ἐν πλοίῳ ἡμῶν, ἡ δὲ σημείωσις τοῦ αὐτοῦ κνιδίου χωρὶς τῆς σημειώσεως ἡμῶν ἔχει ἄγκυραν, ἔχον ἀργυρίου τάλαντα τεσσαρακοντα τάλαντα μ. τὰ δʼ ἄλλα τὸ ἓν ἔχον ἀργυ…