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Daily account of money payments by individuals TM 818181Theadelphia (Arsinoites)II

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Fragment of a daily money account listing payments in drachmas and obols by named individuals, with a running total for each day. It comes from Theadelphia in the Arsinoite nome and dates to the 2nd century AD.

In English machine translation

[column i] [...] [...] Apis [...] [...] drachmas Chares son of Didas 16 drachmas Total for the day 48 drachmas 1[.] Kastor son of Harpalos 15 drachmas Sepis son of Albanos 4 drachmas 14 obols Mystharion son of Herakleides, fruit-buyer, 8 drachmas Peteeus son of Apynchis 16 drachmas Zoilos son of Aphrodisios 8 drachmas Mysthes son of Didymos 8 drachmas 14 obols Apollonios son of Didymos 12 drachmas Heron, likewise (son of Heron?), grandson of Dioskoros 24 drachmas H[...]s son of Chairas 4 drachmas [...] son of Dioskoros 28 obols Kar[...] 16 drachmas Pnepheros the younger son of Pnepheros son of Pachois 12 drachmas Chares son of Didas 12 drachmas Pnepheros the younger son of Pnepheros son of Pachois 4 drachmas 4 obols Horion son of Dionysios 12 drachmas Onnophris son of Soulis 12 drachmas Polis son of Osis 12 drachmas Sotas son of Aretion 4 drachmas 27 obols Apynchis son of Orseus through Didymos 20 drachmas 17 obols Lautanis son of Herakles 12 drachmas Total for the day 228 drachmas 1[.] obols. 1[.] Chares son of Didas 4 drachmas 28 obols Harpalos son of Didas 16 drachmas Dioskoros son of Heron 4 drachmas 25 obols [column ii] [...] [Heron son of] Heron grandson of Dioskoros 2 drachmas 25 obols Heron son of Aniketos [...] drachmas 28 obols Total for the day 172 drachmas 20 obols. 19 Apis son of Heron 36 drachmas Chares son of Didas 16 drachmas Heron son of Sarapion, of Althaia (?), 8 drachmas 16 obols Iason son of Osis 4 drachmas 8 obols Onnophris son of Horos 8 drachmas Mystharion son of Herakleides, fruit-buyer, 8 drachmas [...]os son of Aphrod[isios] 21 obols [...] son of Ptol[emaios], ancestor (?) of Dionysios 12 drachmas Zoilos son of Mysthes 8 drachmas 12 obols Heron son of Katillios 16 drachmas Chairas [...] 8 drachmas [...]sis 8 drachmas Total for the day 133 drachmas 28 obols. 2[.] [...] 8 drachmas [...] son of Anompheus 12 drachmas [...] son of [...] 4 drachmas Timokrates son of Ision through Kephal[...] 8 drachmas 12 obols Herakl[...] son of Panouphis 4 drachmas Polis son of Osis through Sabinus 8 drachmas Dionysios son of Ptol[emaios] 10 drachmas Mysth[...] 8 drachmas 4 obols Apoll[...] 4 drachmas Mysthes [...] Akous son of Ptolemaios [...] [column iii] [...] Total for the day [...] drachmas [...] 22 [...] [...]

Numbers at the start of some lines are days of the month. Obol figures above 7 (up to 28) suggest a reckoning in which the drachma was divided into more obols than the usual six.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Fragment d'un compte d'argent). 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

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