Fragment d'un livre de comptabilité
Fragment of account book
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 38707
Fragment of an account book of receipts from individuals TM 38707Provenance unknown (Province of Egypt)VII A.D.
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A fragment of an account book listing sums received from various individuals, including Menas, Polemon a dry-goods seller, and Anastasios a lint-maker, in carats and other units. One entry records payment for the price of a hooded cloak (karakallion). It dates to the 7th century AD; provenance is unknown.
In English machine translation
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From […]
From Menas, as (?) 2 carats […] through the same, 1 1/2 carats
From the same, 10,050 (myriads of) solidi (?), 980 carats
From Polemon, dry-goods seller, through Anastasios, lint-maker, 6 carats
From Anastasios, lint-maker, through Polemon, dry-goods seller, 6 carats
From the same, a quarter-[…] and 1 mation, 1 half-mation
From […] Petronios, through Anastasios, this small change
for the price of a cloak, 20 carats
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The line reading 'nomismata myria 50, keratia 980' is obscure as transcribed; the figures may be money of account. A mation is a dry measure; kerma means small copper change.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Fragment d’un livre de comptabilité). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
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