A monthly cash account for Mecheir of year 5, sent by Euporos, manager of the hamlet of Pset, to the landowner Aurelia Demetria, a matrona stolata. It lists income from grain sales and expenses for workers weeding and irrigating wheat, barley, vegetables and hay, plus wages of herdsmen and the manager, in the Arsinoite nome.
In English machine translation
[A]
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To Aurelia Demetria, matrona stolata, daughter of Aurelius Posidonios, former hypomnematographos,
through Euporos, manager of the hamlet of Pset.
Money account for the month of Mecheir of the current year 5. It is as follows:
Receipts: through Heronas, the steward, as per the account given separately for […] the Bacchiote, 80 drachmas;
from the price of 20 artabas sold to the workers […] 10 and others, by public measure at 12 drachmas, 240 drachmas;
from the account of the previous month there remained 136 drachmas, copper;
total of receipts 457 drachmas, copper.
Of which, expenditure: weeding in the wheat […] 31 workers at 12 obols, 53 drachmas 1 obol;
[…] watering in another plot of 24 arouras […] 16 workers, 27 drachmas 3 obols;
[…] watering in the vegetables 2 arouras, 6 workers;
[…] watering in another plot of 4 (?) arouras […] called […], 5 workers;
[…] watering in the barley, others, 4 workers;
watering for foliage in the wheat of the plot of 16 arouras […], 7 workers.
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Likewise watering in another plot of 8 arouras, wheat 4 arouras and vegetables 4 arouras, 4 workers;
likewise watering hay of 11 arouras, 2 workers;
likewise watering hay in another plot of 19 arouras called Klemos', 7 workers;
likewise watering hay of another 11 arouras in the same parcel called Klemos', 3 workers;
likewise watering hay in another place, on the east of the 24 arouras, 2 arouras, 3 workers;
likewise watering in another plot of vegetables 2 arouras, 2 workers;
digging and carrying earth for one dyke, blocking one water channel between the 16 arouras and the 24 arouras for irrigation, 4 workers;
likewise watering hay in two places of 15 arouras, 4 workers;
total of these 98 workers at 12 obols, 168 drachmas.
Salaried staff likewise:
to Ptollis the cowherd for the month, 64 drachmas;
to Panesatis the ox-driver likewise, 52 drachmas;
to me, Euporos, likewise, 40 drachmas;
price of oil for the camel drivers carrying barley for 2 days, 1 drachma 1 obol.
Total of these also 157 drachmas 1 obol, against receipts of 457 drachmas copper; remainder carried to the next month 132 drachmas 5 obols.
Matrona stolata is a Roman honorific rank for women of high standing; a hypomnematographos was a senior Alexandrian official. The totals in the text do not fully match the listed items, as the scribe's figures stand.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Rendiconto ad Aurelia Demetria matrona stolata). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.