One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 28581

Account of payments in money and grain to a soldier and secretaries TM 28581unbekanntII

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Fragment of an account listing payments in drachmas and artabas made by order of several persons, including sums to a soldier named Bibius and to a secretary named Ptolemaios. It dates to the 2nd century AD.

In English machine translation

[recto] Until […] […] 4, 6 […] 24 drachmas By order of Arist(…) and Sero(…) and … Ptolemaios: to Bibius, soldier, 40 drachmas to Ptolemaios, secretary of Dionysios, 4 artabas, at 8 drachmas (each), 32 drachmas to Ptolemaios, secretary, newly planted (land?), for … 2 1/2 artabas, 20 drachmas [verso] […]

Several words are abbreviated or garbled in the original (μεμαιω, μινι, the names Arist- and Sero-) and their meaning is uncertain; 'newly planted' may refer to land or be an epithet.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Rechnung). 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.erl.92

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

[r] ἕως[…] μεμαιω παρ δ ϛ […] δραχμαὶ κδ ἐξ ἐπιστάλματος Ἀριστ καὶ Σερο καὶ τ Πτολεμαίου Βιβίῳ στρατιώτῃ δραχμαὶ μ Πτολεμαίῳ γραμματεῖ Διονυσίου ἀρτάβαι δ ἐκ δραχμῶν η δραχμαὶ λβ Πτολεμαίῳ γραμματεῖ νεοφύτῳ ὑπὲρ μινι ἀρτάβαι β 𐅵 δραχμαὶ κ [v] [… ? lines lost …]