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Account of common expenditure including payments to priests and officials TM 23395Herakleopolites

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An account of shared expenses from the Herakleopolite nome, listing payments to individuals, priests of local gods (Souchos, Mestasytmis, Isis), officials such as the epistrategos' sword-bearers and assistant, a kithara-singer, and for goods like cups, wine and a crocodile. The first part totals 1819 drachmas 4 obols.

In English machine translation

[column 1] Another account of common expenditure, items listed below: To Tryphon for the library (?), through Antigonos, 500 drachmas for cups and half-kotylai, 340 drachmas […], 63 drachmas … Alexandra to a slave boy (?) … to Apellas, 200 to Lemesas (?), for a crocodile, 72 items listed below: to the exegetes, 144 due […], 44 drachmas, 7 drachmas 3 obols for boxes, 12 drachmas … 8 … 8 […] to Parnassos (?), 8 through the arouras and half … 4 … […] honey is owed […] … for a cover for a seat (?) … 3 obols to Konkinos (?) the kithara-singer, 2 drachmas to the stator of Faustus, 8 drachmas to the priests of Mestasytmis, 8 drachmas to the …-makers, 4 drachmas […] [column 2] to the sword-bearers of Teiron the epistrategos, […] drachmas to the priests of Souchos, 8 drachmas to the assistant of the epistrategos for the supervision of linen-weavers, 4 drachmas to the assistant of Apellas through Heraklas for 2 jars of wine, 6 drachmas to the same, 4 drachmas to the priests of Isis and […] to the soldier of Horeion, […] drachmas price of […] [… 3 lines lost …] Total 1819 drachmas 4 obols [column 3] […] to … of the division of Herakleides total […] of the metropolis […]

The payment 'for a crocodile' probably relates to a sacred animal cult of Souchos. A stator was a Roman official's attendant or orderly.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as 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.

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bgu.16.2671

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

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