One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 31705

Account of amounts listed against persons and slaves TM 31705MemphisIII

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Fragmentary account listing persons, including several slaves, each followed by an amount with fractions. It comes from Memphis and dates to the 3rd century AD.

In English machine translation

[recto, column 1] [… lines lost …] […] […] 3 1/2 1/3 (?) […] 3 1/2 1/3 (?) […] 35 1/4 […] 4 1/3 (?) […] 12 1/4 1/3 (?) […] 3 1/3 (?) […] 3 1/3 (?) […] 1/2 […] 4 […] 4 […] 8 […] 6 1/3 (?) [recto, column 2] [… lines lost …] […], full brother (?), 11 1/2 […]phies, full brother (?), 16 1/3 (?) […] slave […] […]2 1/4 Of the same, slave woman, of the court (?), 17 1/3 (?) Of the same, slave woman of the same, 5 Of the same, slave woman of the same, 5 Of the same, slave woman of the same, 6 1/2 1/3 (?) […] of Theon, 5 1/2 Of the slave of Mikon, 4 Meroeites (daughter) of Apollo[…], 4 1/3 (?) Of Nais (daughter) of Artem[…], 5 1/3 (?) Nounous (son) of Aresia[…], 2 1/2 Lou[…] (son) of Pollan[…], 16 1/3 (?) […] (son) of Adamas, 68 1/2 […] (son) of Adamas, 27 […] (son) of Herakleides, 284 1/2 1/3 (?)

The unit of the amounts is not stated, and the sign read here as a fraction (γ) may be a numeral or another fraction. The abbreviation γερμαν(ός), taken as 'full brother', and the word αὐλή ('court, estate') are uncertain in sense here.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below. 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 · III · Memphis

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