A Coptic account from about AD 838 listing payments, among them gold for the archon, public taxes and papyrus. The other side records quantities of wine in double jars owed or delivered by named individuals, including two deacons and two ladies, with totals and values in solidi.
In English machine translation
[recto]
[column i]
[… lines lost …]
[…]
Again, to the archon, gold, which […]
Again, for the public tax (demosion), of the …[…]
Again, for the papyrus (chartion) […]
Again, for […]
Again, for wine, which he drank (?) […]
Again […] …[…]
[…]
Again, from Apou (?) Abel […]
[…]
[…]
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Again […]
Again, for lentils, which […]
Again, from Timothe(os), for […]
[…]
Again, for the […]
Again, to the cattle (?), 20 folles
Again […]
[column ii]
…
[Again], from Lalêu (?) […]
[…]
[Again], for Apo[…]
[Again], from Razapan (?) […]
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[…]
[… 3 lines lost …]
[Again, for] the public tax […]
… the completion of […] 9 solidi
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[…] 1 solidus
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[verso]
[column i]
[…]
[…] 6
[…] 16 1/2
[…] 8 …
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Lady Merkoure 12 100
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† The collection of all these
Total 381
[column ii]
Total 1…
[… 2 lines lost …]
[…] double jars
The deacon Enoch 6 50
Lady Douxia 2 16
Taho, 1 solidus toward it […]
The deacon Petros, again, 11 1/2 96 1/2
Chaabar … 1 11 1/3
Total double jars 376 1/2
⟦Total⟧ double jars ⟦1607, solidi 192 1/2 1/3 1/12 1/48⟧
1796 1/3, solidi 223 1/4 1/48
Of which 22 …
[…] 1773 1/3
A diploun (double jar) was a standard wine measure. Several readings of names and items on the recto are uncertain.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Wine 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.