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A private household account listing receipts and itemized expenses, including payments to sailors and individuals, weaving and fulling costs, a frying pan, sandals, boat fares and food. It dates to the 2nd century AD.
Antichresis is a loan arrangement in which the creditor's interest is paid by use of property or labour; here it seems to denote a payment under such an arrangement. Some obol figures (20, 12) exceed a drachma's six obols, as written in the edition.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Privates Wirtschaftsbuch). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
[1] [… ? lines lost …] λόγος λημμάτων ἀπὸ δραχμῶν Αοϛ ἀναλωμάτων ὁμοίως διαγραφῆς τῶν ναυτῶν δραχμαὶ ω Πατάλῳ δραχμαὶ κη Ἀθηνοδώρῳ δραχμαὶ κ ὑφάντρων χιτῶνος δραχμαὶ κ ὀβολοὶ κ τιμῆς κρόκης δραχμαὶ κ τιμῆς τηγάνου δραχμαὶ λε ὑποδήματος ὁμοίως δραχμαὶ ϛ διώβολον λεπτῆς δαπάνης δρα…
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