An account of daily expenses apparently kept during a boat journey up the Nile, headed by a list of the nomes between Memphis and Hermopolis. It records purchases over several days (oil, bath fees, firewood, food such as radishes, honey, oysters, sea urchins, chickpeas and vegetables, and wine), with a final total divided into four shares. It comes from the Zenon archive, Philadelphia, mid-3rd century BC.
In English machine translation
[recto, centre]
[…] son (?)
Memphis ⟦and⟧
Memphite nome
Aphroditopolite nome
Arsinoite nome
Herakleopolite nome
Oxyrhynchite nome
Kynopolite nome
Hermopolite nome
17th: oil […]
bath-man […]
firewood […]
[…]
[…]
[…]
18th: grain, 1/2 obol […]
bath-man […]
radishes […]
[…]
honey […]
firewood […]
[… 1 line lost …]
19th: bath-man […]
salt […]
castor oil […]
oil, 3 1/2 obols
oysters, 1 obol; sea urchins, 1 obol
[…], 2 obols; chickpeas, 1/2 obol
vegetables, 1/4 obol; firewood, 1/4 obol
[recto, margin]
26th (?): 3 1/2 obols
[recto, centre]
wine, 1 drachma; total 1 drachma 5 obols
4 shares, each 2 1/2 obols [and 1/4 (?)]
[recto, margin]
[verso]
The numbers 17, 18, 19 and 26 are days of the month. The papyrus also carries sketches of human figures, including a man or Apollo holding a lyre.
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 daily 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.