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A private account of expenses from the month Pachon onward, recording payments for papyrus, donkey hire, fodder, travel and fees to clerks and officials connected with preparing and delivering monthly returns to the city. It dates to the 1st or 2nd century AD.
The 'monthly' (meniaios) is a monthly report or return submitted to officials; the nomographos, actuarius and logopraktai were clerks and collectors. Several words are unread or obscure, so some lines are uncertain.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Private Accounts). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
λόγος δαπάνης τῶν ἀπὸ Παχὼν ἕως Ἀπουλῆς καὶ …νες μετὰ τοῦ συναιρέματος εἰς τὴν πόλιν δραχμαὶ δ Ἡρακλείδῃ εἰς τὸν μηνιαῖον τιμὴ χάρτου δραχμαὶ ϛ ναῦλον ὄνων καὶ τιμὴ χόρτου δραχμαὶ δ ὀβολὸς ἡμιωβέλιον νομογράφῳ ὡς γράψαντι τὸν μηνιαῖον δραχμαὶ ϛ προσθέσεως ὀβολὸς ἡμιωβέλιον δαπάνη…
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