p.lond.2.227b
[B] βασιλεύοντος Πτολεμαίου τοῦ Πτολεμαίου καὶ Κλεοπάτρας θεῶν Ἐπιφανῶν[…] […]…ρ……υτος τοπογραμματ[…] […]τοῦ Παθυρίτου πρὸς ερ[…] […] Πτολεμαῖον τὸν ς…[…] […]τῶν προσόδων επ…[…] […]μενος ἐλαιουργίου […]
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 5891
Fragment mentioning a district scribe and an oil factory in the Pathyrite nome TM 5891Pathyrites180 - 145 v.Chr.
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Fragmentary opening of a Ptolemaic document dated by the reign of Ptolemy VI, son of Ptolemy V and Kleopatra I. It mentions a topogrammateus (district scribe) of the Pathyrite nome, a certain Ptolemaios, the revenues and an oil factory.
In English machine translation
[B]
In the reign of Ptolemy son of Ptolemy and Kleopatra, gods Epiphaneis, […]
[…] …, topogrammateus […]
[…] of the Pathyrite nome, to […]
[…] Ptolemaios the […]
[…] of the revenues […]
[…] … of the oil factory […]
A topogrammateus was the scribe of a toparchy, a subdivision of a nome. Oil production was a royal monopoly in Ptolemaic Egypt, which may explain the link between revenues and the oil factory.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as keiner). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.