Private Account
On the verso of P.Hibeh.II.281, a private account.
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 25870
Private account of money payments TM 258701902First-second century A.D.
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A private account listing sums of money received from or paid to various individuals, including a weaver, a tax collector and a coppersmith, with items for a bath, an oil-press, wine and assessments. It dates to the 1st-2nd century AD and may come from the Hermopolite nome.
In English machine translation
Zoilas, weaver, 16 drachmas
Harpaesis of Hermopolis, 20
Prision (and) Pausiris, friend, 20
Akous, for the bath, 2
Heraklas, collector (praktor), 10
of the oil-press, bath, 2
Nepheros, pal[…], 2
Panetbeuis, 6; for assessments (merismoi), 12
of Adrastos the coppersmith, 4 drachmas
Total ⟦86⟧ 90 drachmas
Price of 6 jars of wine, 33
of the bath, 24
150 drachmas
[…] wife of […]
[…] from friends, 2
[…] of Horos, for kneading-troughs (?), 2
Written on the back of another papyrus; the abbreviation 'pal' in line 7 is unresolved. Merismoi were supplementary tax assessments distributed among taxpayers.
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.hib.2.283
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