Fragment of a private account of expenses from Ptolemaic Egypt, mid-3rd century BC, listing payments and provisions such as beer for guards, barley for a mule, lentils, salt for a sacrifice, brooms, groats and vinegar. It mentions a hunting trip and a property or household of Nikokles.
In English machine translation
[…]
[…] … […]
[…] … gatekeeper(?) […]
[…] you went hunting […]
[…] to the muleteer for […]
[…] … […] to the guards, of beer […]
[…] to the mule-driver, for the mule, barley […]
[…] he owed in addition from the […]
and from the account:
lentils, 2 choinikes; salt for the sacrificial victim, 1/2 obol […]
brooms, 1 obol; barley groats, 2 choinikes […]
vinegar for the table, 2 choinikes; wages for grinding(?) wheat, 2 artabas, 3 obols […]
[…] and for the plaiter […]
[…] to the estate of Nikokles […]
[…] … 2 drachmas, 3 obols […]
[…] … […]
[…]
Probably from the Zenon archive, though no provenance is recorded. 'Sitou katergon' may mean processing costs for wheat rather than the wheat itself.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below. It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.