Report February or March 253 BC
Phamounis, a boat captain in the employ of the estate, reports about receipts and expenditures for the previous year
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Account of boat expenses and receipts by the captain Phamounis TM 1760unbekannt253 BCE
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An account submitted by Phamounis, a boat captain working for an estate, listing his expenses on boat equipment and repairs (ropes, anchor, nails, oars, rushes for caulking) and the wages and other sums he received. It dates to 253 BC.
In English machine translation
Year 32, Tybi. Account from Phamounis, for the boat. Ropes, 5 obols.
Tow-rope, 1 drachma 2 obols.
Another bow-rope, 3 obols.
Stay (?), 2 obols. Rushes, 3 obols.
Anchor, 3 drachmas.
Nails, 2 1/2 obols.
Oars and pole, 2 drachmas 3 obols.
Pauni. Rushes for caulking the boat, 2 drachmas 5 obols. Total 13.
I have received from Timostratos wages in Thebes for Mecheir, 15 drachmas.
And from Philokrates, for Phamenoth, 8 drachmas.
And from you we received for the festival a goose, 5 drachmas.
And from you we received 4 drachmas.
And from Artemidoros the banker, 4 drachmas. Total 36 drachmas.
The regnal year 32 is that of Ptolemy II. The boat expenses add to about 13 drachmas against 36 drachmas received; 'stêr' is an uncertain item of rigging.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Report of Receipts and Expenditures by Phamounis, Captain of a Boat). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
p.col.3.43
ἔτους λβ. Τῦβι. λόγος παρὰ Φαμούνιος. εἰς τὸ πλοῖον. καλῴδια πεντώβολον. ῥῦμα σχοινίον δραχμὴ α διώβολον. πρόρρυμα ἄλλο τριώβολον στῆρ διώβολον. θρύα τριώβολον. ἄγκυρα δραχμαὶ γ. ἧλοι ὀβολοὶ β 𐅵. κῶπαι καὶ κοντὸς δραχμαὶ β τριώβολον. Παῦνι. θρύα ὥστε πακτῶσαι τὸ πλοῖον δραχμαὶ β …