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Memorandum of bank deposits and payments to the treasury TM 941Kharabet el Gerza (ancient Philadelphia)Probably 250 B.C.

The same ancient text or artifact as recorded by 3 records across 3 independent projects, recognised as one entity by its TM-Text identifier. View on Trismegistos →

A memorandum of a bank account, apparently Zenon's, listing sums deposited to his credit (2,000 drachmas silver, 1,000 copper and 504 paid in at Philadelphia) and payments made through the bank to the royal treasury, several on behalf of others such as a brewer, the salt tax of Nikeratos and beer for the guards at Philadelphia. It ends with running totals and the balance; probably about 250 BC, from the Arsinoite nome.

In English machine translation

[recto, column 1] Memorandum […] There is a deposit […] of silver 2,000 drachmas, of copper 1,000, and what we paid in at Philadelphia, in silver 504; total in silver 2,504, in copper 1,000, total 3,504. And from Horos the retailer, whose amount […] having examined […] may be. From this we pay by bank transfer to the king: for the salt fish received from the salt-fish merchants, 6; on behalf of Haryotes the brewer for year 35, in copper 64; on behalf of Nikeratos, for salt tax, in copper 436 drachmas 2 obols; and for Choiak […] 6 choinikes, in copper 72; on behalf of the guards at Philadelphia, for beer which was also given, 270, through Proxenos, in copper 65 drachmas 4 obols; […] of the elders from Memphis billeted around Tanis […] [column 2] […] […] Ephyr[…] 35 [on behalf of those] billeted around Tanis from […] in silver 35 total 1,789 drachmas 1/4 obol […] 1,815 drachmas 2 3/4 obols [verso] 1,500 drachmas 1/4 obol 289 ⟦1,789 drachmas 1/4 obol⟧ remainder ⟦1,000⟧ 1,815 drachmas 5 obols […] total 35 drachmas 15 (?) 5 3/4 obols total 89

Part of the Zenon archive; the general records give the Arsinoite nome while the object record specifies Philadelphia. The final totals on the verso are hard to interpret and the translation of them is tentative.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Memorandum about money). 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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Memorandum about money

Papyri.info — APIS (Advanced Papyrological Information System) — papyri · JE48741 · Probably 250 B.C. · Kharabet el Gerza (ancient Philadelphia)

A note about Zenon's balance at the bank. Lines 1 - 11 give the sums which had been deposited to his credit. Lines 13 - 28 state the amounts which he was paying to the Treasury through the bank, several of which are clearly payments on behalf of other people. The balance is str…

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p.cair.zen.2.59297

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 250 v.Chr. (?) · Arsinoites (?)

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