Another Account
an account in drachmas, content unclear; no relation with the account in P.Col. III 4
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 2298
Fragmentary account in drachmas TM 2298unbekannt258 BCE – 257 BCE
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A fragmentary account in drachmas listing sums against numbered entries, possibly days of a month, with totals and notes of shortfalls. It dates to about 258-257 BC and belongs to the Zenon archive group of papyri at Columbia.
In English machine translation
[… ? lines lost …]
[…] […]
[…] from Krot[…] (?)
[…] 55 (?) drachmas, 200 […]
[…] and […]
[…] 12
[…] 491, the 25 (?) […]
[1] […] 100
[2] […] 60
3 ktan (?) 52
[…] 20
4 ktan (?) 48
5 kta (?) 40
8 ktan (?) 40
10 kt (?) 40
1[.] […] 20
1[.] […] 40 the […]
15 […] 12, total 1[.]
total 452 drachmas […]
1[.] […] 75 (?)
14 […] 200 drachmas, ktan (?) 220 […]
15 […] 436
less 16
[…] he brings less, having 4 drachmas
[…] 55 drachmas
[…] he brings less, 12 drachmas
The recurring abbreviation ktan/kta/kt is unexplained; the account is unrelated to the main account in P.Col. III 4 on the same papyrus.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Another 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.col.3.4a
[… ? lines lost …] […]μ […]…αν…[…] […]κ παρὰ κροτ[…] […]νε δραχμαὶ σ…[…] […]μ καὶ οα…[…] […]ιβ […] υϙα οἱ κε υ…[…] α[…] ρ β[…] ξ γ κταν νβ …κ δ κταν μη ε κτα μ η κταν μ ι κτ μ ι… […]…ιω κ ι… […]βωι μ τὸ τε[…]ι ιε ε…ατεβοι ιβ γίνονται ι… γίνονται δραχμαὶ υνβ κα[…]ρ…ρτε[…]βιω ι… [……