Account of receipts
Account of receipts, drawn up by a certain Senouthes - a merchant (?) - for the 11th indiction. Belongs to the archive of Dioscoros.
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 36687
Account of money received by Senouthes TM 36687Aphrodites kome (?) (Antaiopolites)VIth Century AD
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An account drawn up by a man named Senouthes listing sums in carats he received during an 11th indiction year from various people, including mill-masters, a priest, a cook, an oil-maker, a coppersmith, a farmer, a shepherd and several women. It belongs to the 6th-century archive of Dioskoros, probably from Aphrodito in the Antaiopolite nome.
In English machine translation
[1]
Statement of what was received by me, Senouthes, in the 11th indiction, as follows:
from Palos and Kollouthos, mill-masters, 13 1/2 carats
from Kelops 19 1/2 carats
from the priest of Tamantia 7 carats
from Psais son of Victor, cook, 6 carats
from Apollos, oil-maker, 6 1/2 1/4 carats
from Makarios, coppersmith, 18 carats
from Elisabet daughter of Anomerides (?) 18 carats
from Ioannes son of Keros (?) 6 1/2 1/4 carats
from Isakios son of Pamouhliu 1[…] 1/2 1/4 carats
from Isakios son of Patsareri […] carats
from the farmer Petros son of Ptolemaios 6 1/2 carats
from Iezekiel 10 1/2 carats
from Apollos son of Klech 6 1/2 1/4 carats
from the daughter of Phalirob 6 1/4 carats
from Phoibammon, shepherd, 18 1/2 carats
from Dorantinoos 20 carats
from Papchalakeu 20 carats
from Pantibe 6 1/2 carats
from Isakios son of Pekysios 6 1/2 1/4 carats
from Apollos […] 6 carats
from Palos […] […]
from Pa[…] […]
from the sons of Sibella […]
[2]
from Herakleios 6 carats
from Tsone 6 1/2 1/4 carats
from P…thaueet 6 1/2 1/4 carats
from Termouthia 6 1/2 carats
from Maria 6 1/2 carats
from Thekla 6 1/2 carats
from the public officials (?) 20 carats
The carat (keration) was a fraction of the gold solidus (1/24) used as a money of account. The final entry 'from the public ones' may refer to public funds or officials rather than named payers.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Compte de recettes). 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.masp.2.67142
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