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Steward's account of receipts and various expenses of an estate TM 12388Tebtynis (Arsinoites)7. Mai 167

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An estate account kept by the steward Turbon for the 7th year of Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus, listing receipts and then detailed expenses. Payments include wages for farmers, carpenters, a cowherd and workmen, and purchases of lotus seed, leaven, eggs and baskets, around Tebtynis and Theogonis in the Arsinoite nome.

In English machine translation

[column 1] Account […] of the current 7th year of Antoninus and Verus the lords, through me, Turbon, the steward (phrontistes). […] of the previous account being […] […] 100 drachmas […] the foster-child (?) 24 drachmas […] 300 drachmas […] […] 4 drachmas […] 8 […] […] […] […] […] […] […] […] […] […] […]lles 6 drachmas […] 6 drachmas […] 6 drachmas […] 500 drachmas […] for the holding (kleros) […] Phansetis 64 drachmas […] 700 drachmas […] [column 2] Account of expenditures in detail. From the account: in the previous account Turbon spent more, 257 drachmas. To Protas son of Pikouis, for work on the holding of Zenon, 16 drachmas. Price of 7 artabas of lotus (lotinon) bought at 14 drachmas the artaba, 98 drachmas. To the carpenter splitting a beam […] To the cowherd for Thoth, Phaophi, Hathyr and Hadrianos, […]4 drachmas. Price of leaven, 4 drachmas. Price of other […] Price of other […] […] […] […] For the prices of those from the 4th of the month Pharmouthi, 4 drachmas. To the driver for the price of towels, 8 drachmas. ⟦Price⟧ To the farmers of the holding of Boubalos […] ⟦To the farmers of the holding of Nikandros […]⟧ To the farmers of the holding of Kategoros […] drachmas. Price of eggs for the farmers of Akkation, 4 drachmas. Further expense for the wine-treaders, 52 drachmas. To a carpenter in Theogonis splitting a beam, 4 drachmas. Price of a small tablet, a basket and rope, 4 drachmas. Pachon 12, price of leaven, 4 drachmas. For those driving the she-asses carrying chaff in Tebtynis for 4 days, 4 workmen at 8 obols each, 32 obols. For stitchers of 4 sacks, 24 obols. Price of palm-fibre (?) for repairing baskets, 8 obols. Wage for repairing them, 14 obols.

A phrontistes was a steward managing a landowner's estate; a kleros is a land holding named after an original holder. Hadrianos was a month name used in the Arsinoite nome, corresponding to Choiak.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Conto di spese varie). 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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p.mil.vogl.3.152

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 7. Mai 167 · Tebtynis (Arsinoites)

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