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Private account of receipts and expenses rendered to a landowner TM 21803Oxyrhynchos

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A private account from Oxyrhynchus kept by a steward or agent for a female landowner, listing money received and spent on purchases, bakeries, donkeys, shipping taxes, tow, alum, wages, clothing and pledges. It mentions a servant Moros, a certain Palladias and his nurse, and wine supplied for the annona, with sums in inflated talents.

In English machine translation

Account of moneys which I received: for payment of things purchased, 15 talents and 6 artabas; likewise other, for payment to the bakeries, 8 talents and 3 artabas; for payment for the ⟦animals⟧ donkeys, 6 talents and 10 artabas; for payment of the sea-going ship tax, 9 talents; for payment of the tow, 2 talents; spent on service for Palladias, 1 talent; for wages of two bundles, in your presence, 2 talents. I have given for the annona: the nurse of Palladias received for expenses, in money, 1 talent; I opened the wine store and brought out 51 jars of wine; to Moros for expenses of the river-boatmen, 4 talents; for alum, 20 talents, 2,200 drachmas; for wages of a bundle to Anchisas, 1 talent; price of a sandal (?) for Nonna, 1,200 drachmas; and to you, the landowner, I sent to Alexandria 8 talents; and for pledges ⟦through Apia daughter of Tapilous, Kephal…⟧ 180 talents; and interest for two months […] for conversion into money, 10 talents. Phamenoth 2, to Moros the servant for expenses through Apia daughter of Tapilous, 250 talents; price of uncoined silver in the name of Apia, 60 talents; six months of bakers, 49 talents; for a cloak and a tunic, 17 talents. Phamenoth 2, Moros received 64 talents. When need arose I sent Moros to the village and he received from the sitologoi 46 talents of money. Out of which, when I went abroad, I bought 5 pounds of tow, at 1 talent 2,000 drachmas of money for each single pound. ⟦for the freight through⟧ For the payments […] I have given money, the cherripsiston (?) and the […], on pledge of money, 150 talents. [second hand] And when you went to Alexandria you left me 3 1/2 pounds of unsold (?) tow; 1 jar of wine of the annona was sold for 2 talents 2,000 drachmas; 1 1/2 pounds of tow were bought.

The very large sums in talents reflect the currency inflation of the 4th century AD. Annona refers to state levies in kind; some words (e.g. cherripsiston) are obscure.

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.

p.oxy.10.1288

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · Oxyrhynchos

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