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Accounts of charges on two wheat boats at Memphis TM 25930Oxyrhynchosspätes I - frühes II

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Accounts of charges paid at Memphis on the 29th of a month for two boats carrying wheat, one of 550 and one of 540 artabas. Each lists freight and a series of fees and payments (inspection, banker, interpreter, rudder, clerks, receipts), totalling 91 and 87 1/2 drachmas. From Oxyrhynchus, late 1st to early 2nd century AD.

In English machine translation

[column 1] Account at Memphis, the 29th: Account of the pakton-boat, 550 artabas of wheat, 44 drachmas; for the young men, 6 drachmas; for genos (?), 4 drachmas; search fee, 4 drachmas; to the banker, 1 drachma; handling fee, 5 drachmas; exchange, 1 drachma; to the interpreter, 2 drachmas; for the rudder, 14 drachmas 4 obols; to the guard, from land and for a cap (?), 4 obols; to the clerks, 4 drachmas; to Artemis, 1 drachma; for writing the bond, 1 drachma; for the ticket, 4 obols; search fee on account of libation, 2 drachmas; total 91 drachmas. [column 2] Account at Memphis, the 29th: Of another boat, a cabin-boat, 540 artabas of wheat, ⟦43 drachmas⟧ at the rate of 8 drachmas per 100 artabas, 43 drachmas; for the young men, 6 drachmas; for genos (?), 4 drachmas; search fee, 4 drachmas; to the banker, 1 drachma; handling fee, 5 drachmas; exchange, 1 drachma; to the interpreter, 2 drachmas; for the rudder, 14 drachmas 5 obols; to the clerks, 4 drachmas; to Artemis, 1 drachma; for writing the bond, 1 drachma; for the ticket, 4 obols; total 87 drachmas 3 obols.

A pakton is a light boat and a thalamegos a boat with a cabin; the 'rudder' charge is probably a toll or pilotage fee. Several items such as 'genos' and the payment 'to Artemis' are of uncertain meaning.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Accounts of Freights to Memphis). 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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p.oxy.14.1650

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · spätes I - frühes II · Oxyrhynchos

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