One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 26626

Account of expenses including payment to a field-guard TM 26626unbekanntII - III

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Fragment of an account listing sums in drachmas, including a payment for three fleeces (?) and 12 drachmas to a field-guard, with a reference to the month Pauni. It dates to the 2nd or 3rd century AD.

In English machine translation

[… 1 line lost …] […] 50 drachmas […] 12 drachmas […] 20 […] […] 4 drachmas […] 20 drachmas of three fleeces (?) […] [.]4 drachmas expenditure(s) […] Pauni […] for […] […] to the field-guard 12 drachmas […] 4 […] 4 [… 3 lines lost …]

Most item descriptions are illegible; only the amounts survive clearly. The agrophylax was a rural guard who watched over fields and crops.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Comptes?). 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.diog.52

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · II - III

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