A private account from Oxyrhynchus recording money payments in drachmas and deliveries of wine, measured in tetrachoa, to a certain Philiskos over the course of a year. Wine came from the farm, estates and a cellar, including some for a son's birthday celebration and some sold to a kosmetes.
In English machine translation
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[…]… in instalments, 200 drachmas
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[…]… to you
[…] 118 drachmas …
[…] 200 drachmas
[…] 300 drachmas
[…] 200 drachmas
[…] 200 drachmas
[…] 200 drachmas
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[…] 200 drachmas
[…] 360 drachmas
[…] of vinegar, Apollos the lawyer, 13
[…] Pasion the gymnasiarch, 30
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16: brought up to you from the farm, […] tetrachoa
and up to Choiak 17 you received […]
of wine of the produce of year 15, further […] tetrachoa
and Phaophi 19, for the birthday of Dionysios the son, to those in the house, […] tetrachoa
Agathos the kosmetes, of wine, 40 tetrachoa, the price of which will be paid, 120 drachmas.
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Likewise of wine of the produce of year 16: brought up to you, Philiskos, drinking wine, […] tetrachoa
and further, up to Choiak 17, in instalments, […] tetrachoa
Choiak 19: brought up to you from the siphon, drinking wine, […] tetrachoa
Mecheir 13: brought up to you likewise […] tetrachoa
16: brought up to you …[…]… from the old estate […] tetrachoa
and drinking wine from the siphon, for two, […] tetrachoa
Phamenoth 30: to you, Philiskos, from the old estate through (?) … […] tetrachoa
and further, of wine from the western (?) estate, […] tetrachoa
Pharmouthi 16: to you, Philiskos, brought from the cellar, […] tetrachoa
23: to you likewise, Philiskos, […] tetrachoa
29: to you likewise, Philiskos, from the cellar, […] tetrachoa
Pachon 14: to you likewise from the cellar, […] tetrachoa
and from Pachon 22 to Pauni 30 […]
brought to you in instalments from the cellar, for those you agreed with, further […] tetrachoa
and from Epeiph 1 to the epagomenal days […]
you received in instalments, for those you agreed with, […] tetrachoa
Total: 10[…] tetrachoa
Inquire. Ammonios …[…]
Phanias son of Phanias […]
Ph… […]
son … […]
declared (?) […]
Sar… through Sara…, in the name of S…[…]
for the sake of […]
The tetrachoon is a wine jar of four choes. A kosmetes was a municipal magistrate responsible for the gymnasium and ephebes.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Private Account of Money and Wine). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.