Duplicate receipt
Philistos, an employee of Etearchos the nomarch, acknowledges that he has received twenty drachmae, as a loan, from Panakestor.
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 764
Double receipt for a loan of 20 drachmas from Panakestor to Philistos TM 764Kharabet el Gerza (ancient Philadelphia)5th December, 257 B.C.
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A double receipt in which Philistos, agent of Etearchos, acknowledges receiving a loan of 20 drachmas from Panakestor, agent of the finance minister Apollonios. It was written on 5 December 257 BC in the Arsinoite nome (Philadelphia) and belongs to the Zenon archive.
In English machine translation
[recto]
Year 29, Phaophi 11. Philistos, the agent of Etearchos, has received as a loan from Panakestor, the agent of Apollonios, 20 drachmas.
Year 29, Phaophi 11. Philistos, the agent of Etearchos, has received as a loan from Panakestor, the agent of Apollonios, twenty drachmas.
[verso]
Phaophi 11.
Money matters.
The text is written twice, the first copy giving the sum in numerals and the second in words, a common safeguard; the verso docket 'argyrika' files it under money accounts. Etearchos is identified as a nomarch in one catalogue description.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Duplicate receipt). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
p.cair.zen.1.59115
[r] ἔτους κθ, Φαῶφι ια. ἔχει Φίλιστος ὁ παρʼ Ἐτεάρχου δάνειον παρὰ Πανακέστορος τοῦ παρʼ Ἀπολλωνίου δραχμὰς κ. ἔτους κθ, Φαῶφι ια. ἔχει Φίλιστος ὁ παρʼ Ἐτεάρχου δάνειον παρὰ Πανακέστορος τοῦ παρʼ Ἀπολλωνίου δραχμὰς εἴκοσι . [v] Φαῶφι ια. ἀργυρικά.