Receipt for Money Payment
Receipt for payment of money
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 41899
Record of a payment of 8 drachmas to Ptolemaios son of Nekpheros TM 41899probably Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of EgyptIIIrd century A.D.
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A short ostracon receipt or account entry recording a payment of 8 drachmas on the second epagomenal day, credited to Ptolemaios son of Nekpheros. It dates to the 3rd century AD and probably comes from Karanis in the Fayum.
In English machine translation
Epagomenal day 2, 8 drachmas,
making 8 drachmas,
to Ptolemaios son of Nekpheros.
The epagomenal days are the five (or six) extra days added at the end of the Egyptian year after the month Mesore. The father's name Nekpheros is an abbreviation expanded by the editor.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Receipt for Money Payment). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
o.mich.1.139
ἐπαγομένων β δραχμαὶ ὀκτώ, γίνονται δραχμαὶ η, εἰς Πτολεμαῖον Νεκφερῶτος.