Fragments of a 4th-century AD account listing payments made through various individuals, with sums in talents and totals by region, including the Upper and Lower Thebaid. Names such as Tiberinus, Melas, Silvanus and Sarapion appear.
In English machine translation
[Fragment A]
[...]
[...]eudai[...]
[...]saep[...]
[...]anai [...]
[...] for [...]
[Fragment B]
[...]
[...]e
[...] of the [...]opolite (nome)
[...]aios through Tiberinus [...]
through Ago[...]
[...] Iunius through Melas [...]
[...] through Silvanus [...]
[...]endem[...]
[...] Sarapion [...]
[...]elea k[...]
[...]eto[...]
[...]au ar[...]
[...]ou [...]
[...]
[Fragment C, column 1]
[...]
[...] 2,003
[...] from Di[...] 4,000 talents
[...] 1,400 talents
[...] 7,000 talents
[Fragment C, column 2]
[...]
[...]se[...]
[...]sal[...]
[...]
[...]eip...loi[...]
[...]dia[...]
[...]eud[...]
total [...]
Lower Thebaid [...]
Upper Thebaid [...]
pa[...]
[Fragment D]
[...]
[...]olou ap[...]
[...] as follows: [...]
[...]kto and Syros [...]
[...] as follows: [...]
[...] of Apollon (?) son of Ktesios and Ak[...]
[...] Pasetis and Lou[...]
[...]atis Ap[...]
[...] of Apollon (?) son of Kornelios, many others [...]
[...] Eusebion [...]
The numerals in Fragment C may be read differently depending on how the Greek numeral signs are interpreted; large sums in talents reflect 4th-century inflation. The text comes from the Nag Hammadi cartonnage.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Fragments of Accounts). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.