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A money account submitted by Artemidoros, the household steward, recording income from the sale of wool and expenses for reeds, fulling and washing of the slave boys' clothes, and festival gifts to the boys for the Arsinoeia. It shows that he spent slightly more than he received. It belongs to the Zenon archive from Philadelphia in the Fayum, mid-3rd century BC.
The Arsinoeia was a festival in honour of the deified queen Arsinoe II. The Greek term 'plymata' (washings) may refer to washing of clothes rather than food as the catalogue description suggests.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Account from Artemidoros). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
Artemidoros had received 108 drachmae from the sale of wool and had spent 110 1/2 on supplies of reeds, on cleaning of the houseboys' clothes, on plumata for their meals and on small gifts of money to them for the festival of Arsinoe.
[r] […]… Ἀρτεμιδώρου τοῦ ἐπὶ τῆς οἰκίας […]αρευ…μου τῶν ἐρίων μνῶν λ ἀργυρίου δραχμὰς ξη ……ν…κου τιμὴν ἀργυρίου δραχμὰς μ ἀπὸ τούτου Δίου τῶι καλαμοπώληι ἕως Δύστρου τοῦ μηνὸς δραχμαὶ κ γίνεται τῶν πέντε μηνῶν ἀργυρίου δραχμαὶ ρ διώβολον τῶν παιδαρίων γνάπτρα ἱματίων θ ἀνὰ τετρώβ…
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