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An account by Demetrios acknowledging receipt of 25 drachmas and listing how they were spent on hiring donkeys over five days and paying two workmen stacking hay. The docket describes it as his account for bricks he delivered. It comes from the Arsinoite nome (Fayum) in the mid-3rd century BC.
The numerals 3 to 7 at the start of the lines are taken as days of the month. The listed expenses total 24 drachmas 4 obols, slightly less than the 25 drachmas received.
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.
[r] ἔχω παρὰ σοῦ δραχμὰς κε. τούτων γ μισθώσιμοι ὄνοι ιδ ἀνὰ διώβολον γίνεται δραχμαὶ δ τετρώβολον δ ὄνοι μισθώσιμοι ιδ ἀνὰ διώβολον γίνεται δραχμαὶ δ τετρώβολον ε ὄνοι μισθώσιμοι ιδ ἀνὰ διώβολον γίνεται δραχμαὶ δ τετρώβολον ϛ ὄνοι μισθώσιμοι ιγ ἀνὰ διώβολον γίνεται δραχμαὶ δ διώ…
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