A Note on Some Price Indications from Roman Egypt Featuring Peculiar Amounts of Drachmas

• Autores: R.P. Salomons, Klaas A. Worp
• Localización: Archiv für papyrus-forschung und verwandte gebiete, ISSN 0066-6459, Band 56, Nº. 2, 2010, págs. 286-289
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • In Roman Egypt, prices of real estate and animals tend to have been settled in multiples of four drachmas so that payment could be in tetradrachma-coins. If such prices were not divisible by four, the readings of numerals or the conversion from bronze to silver drachmas would turn out to be wrong in many cases. Only a small number of amounts not divisible by four turn out to be inescapably correct.