Fragmentary account recording payments connected with a bath and water-channels, including sums paid to the architect Komoapis. The verso mentions grain, a loan or payment to Polemon, and persons named Demetrios, Balakros and Onnophris. It comes from the Arsinoite nome in the mid-3rd century BC.
In English machine translation
[recto]
[…]
[…] … […]
[…] of the […]
[…] for the bath […]
[…] to Komoapis the architect, for slaves (?) […]
[…] 30 at 1 obol each, total 5 drachmas […]
[…] to the other water-channel […]
[…] for the dike of the water-channel […]
[…] to the architect for their […]
[…] from 1 […]
[…] Apollonios (?) […]
[…] … […]
[…]
[verso]
[…]
[…] 2 artabas […]
[…] … […]
[deleted text]
[…]
[…] lent (?) to Polemon […]
[…] we shall recover from him […]
[…] of Demetrios 5 1/2 and […]
[…] 4 4 and to Polemon […]
[…] to Balakros […]
[…] Onnophris […]
[…]
[…]
[…]
Komoapis is a known architect in the Zenon archive, and this fragment probably belongs to that archive. The word translated 'slaves' (somata, literally 'bodies') may refer to workmen.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below. It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.