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A memorandum listing goods bought in Alexandria for the writer through the sailor Menas, including peacocks, iron, wood, Spanish oil, sweet oil, fish sauce and cedar oil, with prices in carats. It is followed by a damaged request to the addressees to release the sailor without loss, advance him further money if needed, and send letters to abba Herakleides.
Sums are reckoned in gold solidi minus a number of carats (keratia, 1/24 of a solidus) by the Alexandrian weight standard. The document combines an expense account with a letter of request.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Account of Expenses). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
† ὑπομνηστικὸν σκευῶν ἀγορασθέντων μοι ἐν Ἀλεξανδρείᾳ διὰ Μηνᾶ τοῦ ναύτου οὕτως ἐδόθη δὲ αὐτῷ εἰς χεῖρας νομισμάτια δ παρὰ κεράτια κ ζυγῷ Ἀλεξανδρείας καὶ ὑπὲρ ναύλων τοῦ πλοίου νομισμάτια ϛ παρὰ κεράτια ιβ ζυγῷ Ἀλεξανδρείας ὁμοίως γίνεται χρυσοῦ νομισμάτια ι παρὰ κεράτια λβ τὰ κ…
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