Account of corn freight
A short account dealing with the transport of corn from the Arsinoite nome to Alexandria.
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 964
Account of freight for grain shipped from the Arsinoite nome TM 964Kharabet el Gerza (ancient Philadelphia)About 28th January, 249 B.C.
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An account from the Zenon archive calculating the freight owed to the boatman Inaros son of Phamynis for carrying grain from the Arsinoite nome downriver on the kybaia-boat Isis. Deductions for shortage and weighing discrepancies are subtracted, an exchange charge added, and a payment to Satyros noted. Dated 28 January 249 BC.
In English machine translation
[recto]
Year 36, Dios 22.
Credited to Inaros son of Phamynis, freight charge of the kybaia-boat Isis for the grain brought down from the Arsinoite nome: 966 drachmas 4 obols, from which deductions:
for shortage of 1 artaba, 5 drachmas 2 obols;
for difference in weighing of 90 1/2 artabas 5 choes, 477 drachmas 1/4 obol;
total 482 drachmas 2 1/4 obols.
Remainder 484 drachmas 1 1/2 1/4 obols.
Exchange charge on half, that is on 483 drachmas 2 obols: 30 drachmas 1 obol.
Total 514 drachmas 2 1/2 1/4 obols, of which
to Satyros 312 drachmas 3 obols;
remainder 201 drachmas 5 1/2 1/4 obols.
[verso]
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A kybaia was a type of large cargo boat on the Nile; the exchange charge (katallage) was a fee for converting between copper and silver currency. The papyrus was found at Philadelphia, though the account is placed at Alexandria.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Account of corn freight). 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.3.59320
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