Fragmentary account of payments, some made on the written instruction of Apollonios, to officials such as an architect, dyke supervisors including the geometer Anosis, and a grain official. The back lists issues of castor, gourd and sesame to Egyptian individuals. It belongs to the Zenon archive from Philadelphia in the Arsinoite nome, about 257-256 BC.
In English machine translation
[recto, column 1]
[…]
[…] 2 drachmas 3 obols
[…] to the
[…] 6 drachmas
[…] to the architect, according to
[the letter] from Apollonios […] 40 drachmas
[…]
[…]
[recto, column 2]
[…] according to the letter from Apollonios […]
[…] and other (?) […]
[…] 2 […]
[…]
To Polemarchos […], the one appointed over the dykes […]
To Anosis, geometer, the one appointed over the dykes […]
appointed […]
To Kleitarchos, the one appointed over the grain […]
appointed […]
To Diodoros […]
allowance […]
[…]
[verso]
16, to Psintaes […]
to Psenobastis […]
to Horos […]
[…]
… to Psintaes […]
to Horos, of castor (?) […]
of gourd 1/2 […]
to Kerkion, of sesame 4 […]
to Onnophris, of sesame 4 […]
to Psintaes, of sesame 1/2 […]
[…]
[…] to Onnophris, of sesame […]
[…]
Apollonios is probably the finance minister (dioiketes) whose estate Zenon managed. The word 'kroton' means the castor-oil plant.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below. It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.