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An ostracon account listing fifteen men with sums of money in talents beside each name, most of them 750 talents. It comes from Kysis in the Great Oasis and dates to the 4th or early 5th century AD.
The talent here is a unit of account in the heavily inflated currency of late antique Egypt, so these sums are modest. The trace after Psilis is unread; 'son of' is a guess.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Compte en talents). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
[r] Σαμουῆλ τάλαντα ψν Σιππᾶς τάλαντα ψν Παπνούθης τάλαντα ψν Ὀφέλλεις τάλαντα Αφ Ψῖλις ο… τάλαντα ψν Ἀσάις τάλαντα ψν Ὀννῶφρις τάλαντα τ Βῆς τάλαντα ψν Ἄγαθος τάλαντα ψν [v] Πανίσκος τάλαντα ψν Παᾶπις τάλαντα ψν Ἀπολλῶς τάλαντα ψν Ψάις Νάνι τάλαντα ψν Πετεκῶν τάλαντα ψν Ὀννῶφρις…
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