Account of Corn - Transport
List of expenses connected with shipment of grain
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 28362
Account of expenses for the shipment of grain TM 28362OxyrhynchosRoman CE ii [BPG]
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An account of expenses for shipping consignments of state wheat from Oxyrhynchos, listing freight charges, wages for loading workers paid via the elders of Ophis, wine jars for assistants, a soldier and sailors, and the granary guard's allowances. It dates to the 2nd century AD.
In English machine translation
Account of the consignment of Triadelphos:
3,400 artabas of wheat at 21 drachmas (per 1,000?), 712 drachmas.
To the same, at 4 drachmas per 1,000 artabas, 12 drachmas.
For transport of 171 artabas of wheat carried outside the drying-floor, at 4 drachmas per 100, 6 drachmas.
Price of a jar sent to the assistants and the soldier, 8 drachmas 1 obol.
To the elders of Ophis for wages of 11 workmen loading, 6 drachmas 2 obols.
To Aphynchis, granary guard, for allowances from Tybi, another 18 drachmas.
Total of expenditure, 762 drachmas 3 obols, of which the half (is …).
Consignment of Horion son of Ammonios, 1,500 artabas, and consignment of Pausiris son of Apollonios, 500 artabas, total 2,000 artabas, at 21 drachmas, 420 drachmas.
For the ship's fee, the sum given to Horion the captain, 8 drachmas.
Price of a jar sent to the assistants and the soldier, 8 drachmas 1 obol.
Price of 2 other jars sent to the sailors, 16 drachmas 2 obols.
Price of vegetables for the same, apart from bread, 4 obols.
To the elders of Ophis for wages of 7 workmen loading, 4 drachmas.
To 1 workman assisting with the half-artaba measure and hoisting the grain for 3 1/2 days, 5 drachmas.
Total of expenditure, 466 drachmas, of which the half (is …).
Grand total of expenditure, 1,228 drachmas 3 obols, of which the half is 614 drachmas 2 obols.
To Dioskoras, for which he will render account, 3 obols.
Price of 2 jars consumed by ourselves alone from Phamenoth 27 to Pharmouthi 15, 16 drachmas 2 obols.
Small expenses, including the price of oil for the same days, 8 drachmas 4 obols.
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The rate 'at 21 drachmas' is apparently per 100 artabas, inferred from the totals (3,400 artabas yielding 712 drachmas). Expenses are halved, suggesting costs shared between two parties.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Account of Corn - Transport). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
p.oxy.3.522
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