One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 28589

Private account of expenses for silver, wax, bricks and building work TM 28589unbekanntII - III

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A fragmentary private account listing expenses, including the price of uncoined silver, wax, brickmaking, payments to a builder and to silversmiths, lead, and bundles of some material. It dates to the 2nd or 3rd century AD.

In English machine translation

[…] price of uncoined silver, 30 drachmas (?), 3 obols […] […] price of wax, […] minas […] […] price of brickmaking […] […] to the builder […] […] to the silversmiths, for […] […] of lead […] […] […] bundles […] […] bundles 3 (?) […] […] […] — […] […] price of […]

The word rendered "bundles" (mandakai) refers to bundles or sheaves, often of straw or reeds. The reading of the amount after the uncoined silver is uncertain.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Privatrechnung). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.

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

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