Account
Concerns herdsmen of Mouchis
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 43269
Bank payment by shepherds concerning sheep at Krokodilopolis TM 43269Between 250 and 150 B.C.
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A fragmentary Ptolemaic bank record of a payment made through the bank at Krokodilopolis, run by Herakleitos. Petesouchos son of Sokonopis, Harmiysis son of Phimes and others paid a sum connected with shepherds and sheep for year 3, in copper reckoned against silver.
In English machine translation
[…] 21 (?), through the bank in Krokodilopolis
[over which] Herakleitos [presides …]
[…] Petesouchos son of Sokonopis and
[…] son of Sokonopis and Harmiysis son of Phimes
[…]
[…] of the shepherds for year 3 […]
[…] of sheep, in copper at the rate for silver, five hundred
[…] in copper at the rate for silver, five hundred, total 1000 (?)
"Copper at the rate for silver" means a payment made in copper coin, valued against the silver standard. The final figure is written as the numeral A, which may be 1000 (drachmas).
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Account). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
jjp.42.45
[…] κα διὰ τῆς ἐν Κροκοδίλων πόλει τραπέζης ἐφ’ ἧς Ἡράκλειτος …[…]…αι […]ν Πετέσουχος Σοκονώπιος καὶ […] Σοκονώπιος καὶ Ἁρμίυσις Φίμητος […]…ν…τ…νε…τησ… […] ποιμένων εἰς τὸ γ ἔτος …επ […] προβάτων χαλκοῦ πρὸς ἀργύριον πεντακοσίας […] χαλκοῦ πρὸς ἀργύριον πεντακοσίας γίνεται Α