Account of payments
Uncials written along the fibres.
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 33289
Account of payments for wine, purple, wood and wages TM 33289Arsinoite Nome?4th c. AD
The same ancient text or artifact as recorded by 4 records across 3 independent projects, recognised as one entity by its TM-Text identifier. View on Trismegistos →
A fragmentary account of payments in talents and drachmas, recording outlays for wine, purple dye, wood and wages, and payments to a guard named Mounis and a receiver named Phibion on behalf of people from Krokodilopolis. It dates to about AD 340 and is assigned to the Hermopolite nome.
In English machine translation
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[…] 68 talents
[…] 4
for wine, 14 talents
to Mounis the guard, 40 talents
price of purple, 30 talents
price of wine, 16 sextarii, 48 talents 5,000 drachmas
on behalf of those from Krokodilopolis
to Phibion the receiver […]
for the price of wine
252 talents 4,000 drachmas
price of wood, to the collector […] […] talents
to you, into your hand […]
likewise for wages […]
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[…]
One record places the papyrus in the Arsinoite nome with a query, while the others give the Hermopolite nome. The large sums in talents reflect the steep currency inflation of the 4th century.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Account of Payments). 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.cair.preis.45
p.cair.preis.2ed.45
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