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[1] Διογένει εἰς τὸν ναῦλον ὄνων […] Διοσκόρωι εἰς τιμὴν κριθῆς …[…] ναύλων ἄλλων ὄνων β […] Διοσκόρωι εἰς τιμὴν ἐλαίου […] [… 3 lines lost …]
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 28001
Account of payments for donkey hire, barley and oil TM 28001unbekanntII - III
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Fragment of an account recording payments to Diogenes and Dioskoros for donkey hire and for the purchase of barley and oil. It dates to the 2nd or 3rd century AD.
In English machine translation
[1]
To Diogenes, for the hire of donkeys […]
To Dioskoros, for the price of barley […]
For other hire of 2 donkeys […]
To Dioskoros, for the price of oil […]
[… 3 lines lost …]
The word translated 'hire' (naulon) usually means freight or transport charges, here for the use of donkeys. All amounts are lost.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below. It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.