A daily account of wine issued during the month of Hathyr, listing vessels given for drinking, for the holy offering, to builders, sailors, servants, the sick, church people and others. It comes from the Apollonopolite nome in Byzantine Egypt.
In English machine translation
[A]
† Hathyr 2: for drinking, 1 jar.
On account of Pesynthios ……… 1 psinth(ion?) and 1 lakon.
3: to the builders of Kalopesios, 1 triple.
For drinking, 1 double.
Kalotychos, 1 double.
4: to the wine-pourer, 2 lakona.
For the illness of Mauron(?), 1 lakon.
For drinking, 1 double.
To someone for illness, through Apa Dios, 1 lakon.
5: for drinking, 1 jar.
To the servants of the chartularius, 3 lakona.
To the bath attendants (?):
To Georgios from the church of Syene, 2 lakona.
On account of Pesynthios, 1 psinth(ion?).
7: for drinking, 1 jar.
…… and to those from the Kastra, 2 lakona.
8: for drinking, 1 triple.
To the sailors and servants, 3 lakona.
9: for drinking, for the offering of the brethren, 1 lakon.
To the wine-pourer, 1 lakon.
Spent in […], 1 lakon.
[…]
[B]
Hathyr 8: for drinking, 1 lakon.
11: for drinking, 1.
[C]
[…] 1 double.
[…] 2 lakona.
[…] 1 double.
[D]
16: for the holy offering, 1 jar.
On the same day …[…] from Apollon, 2 doubles.
… for drinking, 1 triple.
For …
[E]
[17]: for the holy offering […]
To the box-keeper, 1 lakon.
For drinking, 1 double.
To the sailors, 2 doubles and 1 lakon.
To the servants, 1 lakon.
18: to the wine-pourer, 1 double.
For drinking, 1 lakon, 1 double.
19: ………………… for drinking, 1 triple.
To the brethren, 1 lakon, 1 double of vinegar.
For Hera(s?) the pistikos, 2 lakona.
For Lazaros the fine-flour baker, 2 lakona.
To Kalopesios, 1 lakon.
For drinking, 1 double, 1 lakotion ⟦20: 1 double⟧.
20: for food(?), 2 lakotia.
For the holy offering, 1 jar.
Lakon, diploun, triploun and psinth(ion) are local names for wine vessels of different sizes with no exact English equivalent. The holy offering (prosphora) refers to wine for church use.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Compte quotidien de vin). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.