A short account listing the expenses of an accounting office for the month of Phamenoth, including payments to guards, attendants, a doorkeeper, a soldier, a banker, and costs for wine and papyrus. It dates to the 2nd or 3rd century AD.
In English machine translation
Account of expenses of the accounting office (logisterion), Phamenoth:
to the palaestra guard (?) 8 drachmas
to the chief attendant 4 drachmas
to the doorkeeper 4 drachmas
to the soldier, the decurion 4 drachmas
to the banker 16 drachmas 8 obols
[…] 16 drachmas
[…] 28 drachmas
for wine and other things 12 drachmas 16 obols
to Ammonios the guard 7 drachmas
to Serenos 4 obols
to the papyrus-seller 4 obols
Several abbreviated entries (e.g. the first item and the lines beginning πρα[…] and παραγ) are uncertain in expansion. The obol figures above 6 (8, 16) are odd and may reflect a different reckoning or a misreading.
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.