One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 121985
Private account of cash and wine purchases TM 121985From: Oxyrhynchite?Early II CE
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A private account from year 17 (probably of Trajan) recording cash receipts and spending over several days, mainly on wine bought by the tetrachous with small charges for transport, and a second account of money received and paid out, including to a camel-driver. It probably comes from the Oxyrhynchite nome.
In English machine translation
Year 17. Account of cash receipts: 86 drachmas.
Of which were spent: on the 4th, price of 3 tetrachoes of wine […]: 27 drachmas; 27 drachmas.
On the 5th, likewise, 2 tetrachoes: 18 drachmas; transport, 1 obol; local charge (?), 4 obols; total 18 drachmas 5 obols.
On the 6th, 4 tetrachoes: 36 drachmas; transport, 2 obols; local charge (?), 6 obols; total 37 drachmas 1 obol.
Of which, for the building (?) 18 drachmas, another 9 drachmas, another to Kastor 4 drachmas; total 31 drachmas; remainder
[…] 6 drachmas 1 obol.
Account with Arei[…] of receipt:
I received on the 4th 60 drachmas […], another (from?) Remos (?) 8 drachmas, another 8 drachmas; total 76 drachmas,
of which I gave to the camel-driver on the 4th, 4 […], on the 5th 2, on the 6th 3, total 9; 81 drachmas; remainder 5 drachmas.
A tetrachous is a wine jar holding four choes. The abbreviations 'τοπ' and 'ἐπὶ δόμ' are uncertain in meaning, and the figures do not all add up as written.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Private 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.nyu.2.53
ιζ ἔτους· λόγος ψιλῶν λημμάτων δραχμαὶ πϛ ὧν ἀνηλώθησαν τιμῆς οἴνου δ τετραχόων γ… δραχμαὶ κζ δραχμαὶ κζ· ε ὁμοίως τετραχόων β δραχμαὶ ιη, μεταφορᾶς ὀβολὸς, τοπ ὀβολοὶ δ, γίνονται δραχμαὶ ιη ὀβολοὶ ε· ϛ τετράχοες δ δραχμαὶ λϛ, μεταφορας ὀβολοὶ β, τοπ ὀβολοὶ ϛ, γίνονται δραχμαὶ λζ…