Architect's cost estimate for repairing an exedra and ball-court TM 21851Oxyrhynchos249 - 250

[...] [...] ... 283 square cubits at [...] [...] sawing of the beams and [...] [...] or increasing (?), to builders and workmen [...] [...] of the potsherds with clay 100 drachmas; lime for [...] of the whole exedra and the whole ball-court, of kilns [...] at 89 drachmas 1 obol, for the 5, 445 drachmas 5 obols, to plasterers, together with labour [...] of the exedra and the ball-court, in total [...] talents [...] and of the other items of the roofing [...] [...] of paintings (?) and roofings, more or less [...] talents [...] 1[...] drachmas, and [...] of local materials for the repair of the [...] [...] more or less 6 talents 650 drachmas, [...] more or less, which has also been declared above from the summary [...] of roofings was made, and of some, in comparison with those now existing [...] to be in agreement with one another in prices and wages. But if [...] for the sake of either safety or good appearance, which [...] and [...], which usually and necessarily is added [...] in the summary, or a little instead of more [...]. And if any of the aforesaid items are not [...] or of those entered in the summaries [...] will be deducted from the total of the summary [...] but if they are at times increased and at times reduced, either by instruction [...] or by the availability of craftsmen or contractors or [...] or when they are not available, of necessity more [...] of the superintendents or the overseers of the works [...] Year 1 of Imperator Caesar Gaius Messius Quintus Traianus Decius Pius Felix Augustus [...], architect, have submitted (this).