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Account of expenses for work on a bath TM 219345Oxyrhynchites (?)II - III

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Fragments of a daily account of expenses for work on a bath building, listing payments to bath attendants, a plasterer, donkeys and donkey drivers, labourers and a builder, and purchases of gypsum. It dates to the 2nd or 3rd century AD, probably from the Oxyrhynchite nome.

In English machine translation

[fragment a] [column i] […] 500 drachmas […] … drachmas […] 200 (+?) drachmas […] 62 drachmas 4 obols […] 20 (+?) drachmas […] … drachmas […] […] [column ii] … […] 25th: to the bath attendants (paracheutai) for cleaning and washing out the new (?) […] to the plasterer for filling up […] to 8 donkeys with 3 donkey drivers […] to 2 workmen repairing (?) […] to 1 other workman who cleaned the domed rooms (tholoi) […] to 7 others mixing ash […] to 3 other workmen in the afternoon […] for the mixing-trough […] of the side rooms of the tholos of gypsum 29 artabas […] bundles (?) 45 […] 26th: 12 donkeys, 3 donkey drivers […] to 3 workmen repairing (?) […] to 1 workman […] to 2 other workmen who worked […] to the builder, the remaining … of the drachmas […] […] of gypsum 21 1/2 artabas […] […] of the turners (?) […] […] […] likewise […] […] [fragment b] […] […] for […] […] tin […] to Dioskourides likewise […] remainder of the price 61 […] to Eudaimon likewise […] … after which (drachmas) he received […] of gypsum artabas […] 29th: nothing 30th: bundles (?) […] […] […]

Numbers at line starts (25, 26, 29, 30) appear to be days of the month. Paracheutai were bath attendants who poured water; tholoi are domed rooms of the bath.

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

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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · II - III · Oxyrhynchites (?)

[fragment a] [column i] […] δραχμαί φ […] δραχμαί … […] δραχμαί σ… […] δραχμαί ξβ τετρώβολον […] δραχμαί κ … […] … δραχμαί […]… [… ? lines lost …] [column ii] … […] κε παραχύταις ὑπὲρ σμήσεως καὶ ἀποπλύσεως καιν…[…] κονιάτῃ εἰς πλήρωσιν […] ὄνοις η σὺν ὀνηλάταις γ […] ἐργάταις β …