One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 2394

Account of payments to officials and issues of oil-seed TM 2394Philadelphia (Arsinoites)257 - 256 v.Chr. (?)

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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.

p.lond.7.2172

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 257 - 256 v.Chr. (?) · Philadelphia (Arsinoites)

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