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Monthly account of cash expenditures TM 25953ArsinoitesI - II

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Fragment of a monthly account of cash expenses from the Arsinoite nome, AD 1st-2nd century. It lists payments to tax collectors, an epistrategos, several individuals marked 'mach', and for wool, papyrus, wine and natron, with running totals.

In English machine translation

[column 1] […] [column 2] […] to Apollonios son of Apo[…] […] to the collector 20 drachmas […] price of wool […] drachmas 9th, to the informer (?) 8 drachmas […] to Arion, soldier (?) 31 drachmas 1st, to Ammon, soldier (?) 41 drachmas price of papyrus 4 drachmas […] to the collector 17 drachmas 20th (?) […] of Pakysis 4 drachmas Total 405 drachmas In addition, other 2,420 drachmas 30th, total 2,825 drachmas […] of the Kaisareion (?), 9th, of the accounting In the month of Epeiph, to the epistrategos 60 drachmas […] collector 4 drachmas Likewise of others 4 drachmas […] through the donkey-driver Aul[…] […] drachmas price of wine to Dionysion 8 drachmas price of wine to Mytharion, soldier (?) […] drachmas […] collector, price of natron […] drachmas to Sarapion, soldier (?) […] drachmas to Ammonarion, soldier (?) […] drachmas place with forecourt (?) 16 drachmas to the collector of the five-day tax, through the son of Aphrodous […] drachmas

The abbreviation 'mach' after several names is uncertain; it may mean 'soldier' (machimos) or something else. The 'five-day' collector and 'pronas' (forecourt) are technical terms of uncertain sense here.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Monthly Account). 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.bodl.1.149

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

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