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An account of expenses connected with a cargo of beans shipped to Memphis, listing charges for the boat, rudder, banker, storehouse, clerks, a search tax, a soldier and various fees. It comes from Oxyrhynchus and dates to the late 1st or early 2nd century AD.
Several items are technical charges whose exact sense is uncertain: 'neou' (perhaps a ship or new item) and 'genous' (perhaps a charge on the kind of goods). The 'search' charge (ereunetikon) was a customs inspection fee.
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 Freight 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.
[…]…, λόγος Μέμφεως· κυάμου δραχμαὶ ριθ, νέου δραχμαὶ ε πεντώβολον, πηδαλίου δραχμαὶ ιδ πεντώβολον, τραπεζίτῃ δραχμὴ α, γένους δραχμαὶ η, ἐραυνητικοῦδραχμαι[…], ταμείου δραχμαὶ ι, χειριστικοῦ δραχμαὶ ιδ, ἀλλαγὴ δραχμαὶ β, συνβολικὰ δραχμαὶ β, γραμματέων δραχμαὶ δ, χειρογραφίαςδρα…
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