One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 4249
Account of payments for wheat, beer and beans TM 4249probably Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of EgyptIInd century/Ist century B.C.
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An ostracon with an account of payments in money for wheat, beer and beans, listing sums paid to several individuals including Peteisis, Thasos(?), Pasoxis and Noumenios. It dates to the 2nd or 1st century BC and probably comes from Karanis in the Fayum.
In English machine translation
[column 1]
[…] for the price of new wheat, 405
for the price of beer, 410; likewise, 70
on behalf of Ision, for beer, 410
for the price of beans, 45
On the 9th: Peteisis, 150
To Thasos (?), 300
To Thasos (?), 100
To Thasos (?), for the price of wheat, 1,600
[column 2]
To Thasos (?), 200
To Thasos (?), for the price of wheat, 1,800
To Pasoxis, brother, 4 drachmas of silver
To Noumenios, 4 drachmas of silver
Total: 8 drachmas of silver
28th: 5,500 (drachmas) of bronze
Most sums are probably in bronze drachmas, as the final bronze total suggests, while a few are explicitly in silver. The recipient name given here as Thasos is uncertain; the Greek form Thasoti is a dative.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Account of Money and Wheat). 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.4.1128
[column 1] […]τιμῆς πυροῦ νέου υε τιμῆς ζύτου υι ὁμοίως ο ὑπὲρ Ἰσίωνος ζύτου υι τιμῆς κυάμου με τῇ θ Πετεῖσις ρν Θασώτι τ Θασώτι ρ Θασώτι τιμῆς πυροῦ Αχ. [column 2] Θασώτι σ Θασώτι τιμῆς πυροῦ Αω Πασόξει ἀδελφῷ ἀργυρίου δράχμας δ Νουμηνίῳ ἀργυρίου δράχμας δ γίνεται ἀργυρίου δράχμ…