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Account of payments to guards and grain delivered to the granary at Krokodilopolis TM 464Krokodilopolis (Pathyrites)103 v.Chr.

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An account in bronze money recording sums paid and their exchange charges, with expenditure for guards at Krokodilopolis, followed by the heading of a grain account of Apollonios, grain official of the upper toparchy of the Pathyrite nome, for grain delivered to the Krokodilopolis granary. It dates to 103 BC.

In English machine translation

[recto] [verso] […] … of the sums paid, 5 talents 5,270 (drachmas) […] of bronze, on which the exchange charge, 13 talents 1,320 (drachmas) [bronze] at par, 7 talents 2,050 (drachmas) [bronze on which] the exchange charge, 3,670 (drachmas); total 13 talents 4,320 (drachmas), (of which) [account of] expenditure by counter-payment [to the] guards stationed (?) in Krokodilopolis, through Antip…r [Account] of Apollonios, in charge of the grain collection [of the] upper toparchy of the Pathyrites: receipt [of the] grain measured into the granary [in] Krokodilopolis [according to] the assessment of year 14, also year 11, [Phar]mouthi 22 to 24. [… 1 line lost …]

The double regnal year (year 14 also year 11) reflects the joint reign of Cleopatra III and Ptolemy X. 'Allage' was a surcharge for paying in bronze rather than silver; 'isonomos' bronze was accepted at par without it.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Abrechnung über Soldatensold und Getreide). 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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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 103 v.Chr. · Krokodilopolis (Pathyrites)

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