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A private account of household expenses kept by Isas for money received from Apollonios, listing daily outlays for oil, bread-makers, grinding, baskets, food for a builder, wages for a workman, and purple dye and thread for a woman's cloak. It comes from Oxyrhynchus and dates to around the turn of the era.
The numbers at line starts are days of the month. 'Prosphagion' means a relish or side dish eaten with bread, here supplied to a builder as part of his keep; the reading 'from Kynopolis' 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 Private 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.
ἔχει Ἰσᾶς παρὰ Ἀπολλωνίου ἀπὸ Κύνου δραχμὰς δ… […] ὧν δαπάνης· τιμῆς χι Νεχθεῦτι δραχμαὶ κη, σιτοποιήτρων δραχμὴ α τετρώβολον, ἐλαίου δραχμαὶ δ διώβολον. δ. ἄλεστρα πεντώβολον, κονίου εἰς προσφάγιον ὀβολὸς. ε. κοφίνων γ ὀβολοὶ δ 𐅵. ϛ. βατανίων διώβολον, προσφαγίου οἰκοδόμου ὀβολὸ…
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