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Building account with payments for animals, materials and workmen TM 17195Antinoites

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An account of expenses for a building project from the Antinoite area, listing payments in talents for hire of pack animals, clay, honey, bricks, wine and oil, and wages of stonemasons, carpenters, brickmakers and a builder. Named workers include Origenes, Peeous, Pathermouthis, Kouris and the stonecutter Eulogios.

In English machine translation

[recto] 13: for hire of pack animals […] 15: for hire of pack animals […] 17: for hire of pack animals […] Likewise to the donkey drivers […] For the price of honey of the […] 23: for hire of pack animals […] 28: for hire of pack animals, talents […] For hire of pack animals for clay […] For the wages of Origenes […] For white clay […] … […] For white clay, talents […] Peeous, for the wages of stonemasons […] Likewise Origenes for the wages of stonemasons […] Likewise Origenes, 20 talents Thoth 19: for the wages of a carpenter […] Likewise, wages of a carpenter, 50 talents For the wages of a carpenter, 30 talents For the wages of a carpenter, 50 talents Phaophi 30 To the carpenters from the 1st to the […] To the carpenters from the 9th to the […] Likewise to the carpenters from the 12th to the 15th 16: to carpenters, 14 talents 17: to carpenters, 14 talents […] carpenters from … to […] […] … […] [verso] […]uthios (?), of the brickmakers, 200 talents […]klesares (?), 370 talents […] Pathermouthis, 200 talents […] Pathermouthis the brickmaker […] … 1550 bricks, total 155 talents […] Kouris, 160 bricks, 15 talents […] to the builder, 200 bricks, 20 talents […] Pathermouthis, 200 talents […] Pathermouthis, 3 knidia of wine, 15 talents […] 3 sextarii of oil, 20 talents […] Pathermouthis, 220 talents […] Pathermouthis, a new spadion (?), 24 talents […] Pathermouthis, into his hands, 82 talents […] to Eulogios the stonecutter, for expenses, 10 talents […] 1350 bricks, 40 talents […] separately, total 210 talents […] 20 (?) […]

Sums in talents reflect the inflated currency of late Roman Egypt. A knidion is a wine jar and a sextarius a liquid measure; the meaning of spadion here is uncertain.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Building 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.

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