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Daily expense account of the record office for food, oil and papyrus TM 11973Tebtynis (Arsinoites)6. - 17. Sept. 46

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A daily expense account from the record office (grapheion) of Tebtynis, listing bread, vegetables, oil and other costs incurred while documents were being written, including payments to scribes such as Lysas and Onnophris, the writer of Egyptian-language documents. It covers several days of the month Sebastos in September AD 46.

In English machine translation

Expenditure for the documents written in the third four-month period, from the 9th of the month Sebastos: To Lysas, the writer, for the price of 1 loaf, 1 obol 12th: for us together with him, 4 loaves, 4 obols beet and oil, 1 1/2 obols […] 14th: price of 4 loaves, 4 obols price of cabbage and oil, 1 obol 15th: price of 4 loaves, 4 obols vegetables, 1 drachma 16th: price of 6 loaves, 6 obols vegetables, 1 drachma 17th: price of loaves, 5 obols vegetables, 1 drachma 18th: price of 5 loaves, 5 obols price of cabbage and chicory (?), 4 obols price of oil, 1 obol 19th: price of 6 loaves, 6 obols vegetables, 1 drachma for the two of us entertaining Patynis, 22 obols To Onnophris, who writes Egyptian (Demotic) documents, 7 obols 20th: price of oil for the night writers, 4 obols price from a roll of blank papyrus, 4 obols

Sebastos is the honorific name for the month Thoth. The "night writers" were scribes working by lamplight, hence the oil expense.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Grapheion Accounts and Registers). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.

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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 6. - 17. Sept. 46 · Tebtynis (Arsinoites)

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