p.lond.5.1886
[… 12 lines lost …] ἑκάστης ἀρτάβης μυριάδας τεσσερακόσια πέπρακεν δὲ ἑπτακαιδεκάτου […] […]ὑπὲρ λόγου ναύλου ἑκάστης ἀρτάβης μυριάδας δώδεκα
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 36987
Fragment of a letter or report on grain prices and freight charges TM 36987unbekanntVI
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Fragment of a letter or report from the 6th century AD giving prices per artaba, including a sale and freight charges reckoned in myriads of denarii. Only the last three lines survive.
In English machine translation
[… 12 lines lost …]
for each artaba 400 myriads (of denarii)
and he sold of the seventeenth […]
[…] on account of freight charges for each artaba 12 myriads (of denarii)
A myriad is 10,000 units of account (denarii), the usual way of reckoning very large sums after the inflation of the later Roman period. 'Seventeenth' probably refers to a date or indiction year, but the context is lost.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Letter (or report)). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.