An account of expenses for supplies and craftsmen's work on a building project in the Arsinoite nome, 2nd century AD, covering coppersmiths, nail-makers and locksmiths. Each item notes the result of an official audit, with some charges disallowed or reduced, for instance adzes that the craftsmen should have supplied themselves.
In English machine translation
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[…] to [so-and-so] the carpenter and those with them
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[…]
[…] were properly entered (?) […]
[…]
[…] and of the furnaces for the […]
[at the] examination they were properly entered […]
[of a weight of] 4 minas, for erection […]
at the examination they were properly entered.
[…] to […], son of Horos, head of the coppersmiths, and those with him, for the price of 4 shears (?) and 2 persia-pieces (?) of a weight of 2 minas, and 2 small gates for a double door of the gateway […], 100 silver drachmas; at the examination they were properly entered.
For the price of shovels and two-pronged hoes, 79 1/4 minas at 4 drachmas, total 317 drachmas; other shovels and hoes of a weight of 52 3/4 minas […] and for the price of 2 small adzes for the use of the stonecutters working the columns, each with its steel edge weighing 2 minas, together 4 minas, 16 drachmas; total 464 drachmas. At the examination, in accordance with other examinations, the charges for the adzes are entirely disallowed, since the craftsmen were obliged to supply them themselves; the rest are reckoned at half, which is 224 drachmas; total disallowed 240 drachmas.
To Ninnos and those with him, nail-makers, for the price of nails for the architraves and in part their facings, and door-frames and the frames (?) of the side tortoise-roofs (?), 31 1/3 minas, 129 drachmas; and for the repair of the doors of the choregion (?), at 24 per mina, 15; and for the haulers' sledges, 1 1/2 minas, 4 drachmas 7; and for the door of the plaster-room, 22 10; together for the price of nails, 108 drachmas 22. At the examination the others were properly entered, but the 4 drachmas 7 for the sledges were set aside for later decision.
To Mareis and those with him, heads of the locksmiths, for the price of locks including wages, and frames and tortoise-pieces, without nails, for the sides of the workshops, 32 drachmas 22; at the examination they were properly entered.
To the same, for the price of a small lock and nails including wages, for the door of the plaster-room, 72; at the examination they were properly entered.
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Timber
Baskets
Workshops
The 'examination' (exetasis) is an official audit of the expenditure. Several technical terms (persia-pieces, chelonia, choregion) are uncertain in meaning, and some figures are obscured by damage.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Abrechnung über Lieferungen zu einem Bau). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.