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Account of household expenses for oil, wheat and textiles TM 219340unbekanntII v.Chr.

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An account of expenses from Ptolemaic Egypt, listing payments in copper and silver for oil, wheat, olives, textile materials (warp and weft) and weaving work, the redemption of an earring, and a delivery to Memphis through a woman named Euphrosyne. Sums in copper are converted to silver reckoning.

In English machine translation

[column I] […] of Herakleia (?) […] of the … Bo[…] […] … kotylai … 3 (?) oil ⟦wages⟧ 6 (?), 1,200 for 3 months until Pharmouthi to you, 4 drachmas, 1,900 ransom (redemption) of an earring, 600 for a contribution, 250 oil for another 5 months from Mecheir to Epeiph at 3 kotylai, 600, 3,000 total 1 talent 3,750 converted to silver reckoning: 20 silver, 250 copper for a tunic …, 500 oil, while you were in the city, 4 kotylai, 800 warp, 5 stathmia at 400, 2,000 weft, 1 stathmion, 500 for working 20 stathmia, 2,200 to Memphis through Euphrosyne, 200 total 1 talent 200 converted to silver reckoning: 12 silver drachmas, 800 copper total 32 silver, 1,050 copper ⟦of which⟧ [… 2 lines lost …] [column II] of wheat in Pharmouthi […] 45 (?), 6, 1,440 another 4 from Pachon, 960 ⟦total silver⟧ total 3,450 which make in silver [8 drachmas] […] grand total in silver 40 drachmas […] olives, 1 jar, 1,200 […] 150, remainder in copper 1,050

Many figures are copper drachmas converted into silver at a high exchange rate, typical of 2nd-century BC Ptolemaic accounting. Several readings at the top of column I are uncertain.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Abrechnung über Ausgaben). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.

DDbDP-text Full record →

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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · II v.Chr.

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