Accounts
A long account of money paid out for various purposes to various persons connected with Zenon. Some of them are paid farmers, some cleruchs, some slaves and domestic servants. Written on both the recto and verso.
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 970
Fragments of an account of payments, including dyestuffs for a dyer TM 970Kharabet el Gerza (ancient Philadelphia)Probably 249 B.C.
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Fragments of an account from the Zenon archive recording money paid out to various people, including transfers by letter, payments to a doctor, and purchases of dyeing materials (madder, thapsos, alum) for Imouthes the dyer. It probably comes from Philadelphia in the Arsinoite nome, around 249 BC.
In English machine translation
[recto]
[fragment 1]
[…]
[…] from the (land?) of Dikaios
[…] 183, 4 1/2 obols
[…] for expenditure, 12 drachmas
[…]
[…] … for the sale
[…] of the wheat which you receive
[…] from him
[fragment 2]
[…]
[…]
[…] from Limnaios of the nomarchy of Timotheos, 262 dr. 3 obols
21st, to Timaios by letter, 100 drachmas
23rd, Sostratos for Pasis son of Irobastis, 100 (drachmas) of bronze
29th, to Poseidonios, which he will pay to Anosis, 194 (drachmas) of bronze
[fragment 1/2]
…
[verso]
[fragment 1]
To Artemidoros the doctor, to Parmeniskos the slave, for the female […] of import, 4 drachmas
[…] and to Imouthes for […]
[…]
[fragment 2]
Through Sosos, Thoth 25, […]
for Imouthes the dyer, [mad]der […]
madder, 30 minas, in silver […]
15th, madder, … talents […]
thapsos, 1 talent, in silver […]
alum, 20 minas, in silver […]
16th, to …, for the […] of Kriton […]
plain, in silver, … drachmas […]
[…] 4 drachmas […]
[…]
Thapsos was a yellow dye plant and alum a mordant; with madder (erethrydanon) they were used for dyeing wool. A nomarchy was an administrative land district named after its nomarch.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Fragment of preceding account (?)). 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.3.59326
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p.cair.zen.3.59326bis
[r] [1] [… ? lines lost …] […] ἐκ τῆς Δικαίου […] ρπγ ὀβολοὶ δ 𐅵 […]…ωι εἰς ἀνήλωμα δραχμαὶ ιβ […]η […]…φειλ…ν πρὸς τὴν πρᾶσιν […]υ σίτου οὗ λαμβάνεις […]παρʼ αὐτοῦ [2] [… ? lines lost …] […]…ωι […] παρὰ Λιμναίου τῆς Τιμοθέου νομαρχίας σξβ τριώβολον κα Τιμαίωι διʼ ἐπιστολῆς δραχμ…
p.lond.7.2002
[r] [3] [… ? lines lost …] ο…τε[…] […]ομο […]…υπ[…] τον […]…ς σι[…]… φέρεις […]ἐπισκο…μονον πεῖν δὲ διὰ τῆς Πύθωνος τραπέζης ἀργυρίου κβ [md,3] καὶ ἃς προσοφείλεις ἐν λόγου προστιθέναι χαλκοῦ. [3] καὶ ὧι πλείω φέρεις Θεοπόμπωι δεδωκὼς Θεόπομπος δὲ οὐχ ὁμολογεῖ ἀργυρίου δραχμὰς ο …