Account of Military Clothing for the Vestis Militaris
Account book listing payments of sticharia, delmatika, pallia, arranged by pagus and village
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 24611
Private account of receipts and expenditures in talents TM 24611Hermopolis300 CE – 399 CE
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A private money account from Hermopolis in the 4th century AD, recording sums received (including a loan from Theodoros) and payments in talents for uncoined silver, freight, linen, vegetables, and to individuals at Antaiopolis, Panopolis and Diospolis. The verso records the value of jars (knidia) kept in a house and storehouse.
In English machine translation
[recto 1]
Account of money […]
and for expenses […]
and we borrowed from Theodoros […]
Total together: 10,000 + 214 talents
of which was spent as follows: talents […]
spent for the price of uncoined (silver), 3 pounds, at […] talents: […]1,554 talents
and for the freight of silver […]
and for linen cloth and expense: 108 talents
and to the man who passed through to Diospolis: 103 talents
and to Marinos: 200 talents
Total: 1,817 talents
and with me, for the surety of Statillius: 100 talents […]
and for Aionios the brother: 60 talents 4,000 drachmas
to Serenos in Antaiopolis: 1 talent 4,000 drachmas
to the sailor in Antaiopolis: 20 talents
and in Panopolis: 20 talents
and for Dioskoros: 30 talents
and for the price of uncoined (silver), 110 pounds: 500 talents
and for the price of vegetables: 250 talents
Total: 1,008 talents 2,000 drachmas
Besa[…] has given […]
and 4, 3
likewise for completion […]
likewise
Total: 1,386 talents 4,000 drachmas
[recto 2]
…
to the man from Dik[…]: […] talents
to the locksmith: […] talents
and […]: 10(+?) talents
and for expense in […]: […] talents
to Gerontios: 100(+?) talents […]
to Herakleides: 400 talents […]
to Marinos: 200(+?) talents
to the same for […]: 200(+?) talents
Total together:
[…] talents
[verso]
[…] [Account] of money through […]
[…]: 9,842 talents
[…]: 100 talents
[…]: 158 talents
[…]
[…] as follows […]
jars in the house, 7 jars at 500 talents: 3,500 talents
jars in the same, 5 at 400 talents: 2,000 talents
in the same, a jar: 480 talents
in the same, a jar: 520 talents
Total: 14 jars, 6,500 talents
[…] our storehouse, another jar: 500 talents
[…] sent from Diospolis: 360 talents
[…] 2 double (jars?): 1,640 talents
[…] through Marinos and Gerontios: 300 talents
[…] Herakleides: 400 talents
[…] Total: 10,000 + 100 talents
[…]: 258 talents
[…] Total: 9,842 talents
One catalogue describes it as an account of military clothing, but the surviving text is a private cash account. The huge talent sums reflect 4th-century inflation; knidion is a type of wine jar.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Private 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.9.248
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