An account kept for a female landowner of uncoined silver she supplied toward a state levy, assessed in proportion to her grain taxes and sent to Hermopolis. It records amounts from various contributors, payments to the silversmith Sarapion including refining costs, gold in solidi, and the balance returned to her, at Oxyrhynchus in AD 307-308.
In English machine translation
[verso]
[Year 14 and year 2], Mecheir 12.
[Account] of uncoined silver handed over [by] the landowner, being carried to Hermopolis to be delivered on account of the levy of uncoined silver that was imposed, apportioned in proportion to the tax assessment of grain measured by the public measure, at the rate of 1 1/2 ounces per 100 artabas. It is as follows:
through another person, 2 pounds 1 ounce 8 grammata;
of Baullios, from 1 pound, after the 4 1/2 ounces 2 grammata left behind with the landowner, the remainder, 7 ounces 10 grammata;
Phamenoth 2,
total 2 pounds 8 1/2 ounces 6 grammata.
To Sarapion, silversmith, 2 pounds; for refining these, 1 ounce 12 grammata.
Of gold likewise, 2 ounces 10 grammata, in 12 solidi.
Remainder, of which there was handed back to the landowner in year 14 and year 2, Phamenoth 17, 3 ounces 9 grammata.
[recto]
[…] 15 and year 3, uncoined silver 2 pounds [8 ounces 12 grammata.]
[…] to Sarapion [the silversmith] […] 2 pounds 3 ounces 17 grammata; for refining these, 1 1/2 ounces; total 2 pounds 5 ounces 5 grammata;
remainder 3 ounces 7 grammata.
The double regnal years reflect the overlapping reigns of the Tetrarchy. Grammata are small weight units (24 to the ounce), and the solidus (holokottinos) was a gold coin.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Account of a Steward). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.