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An ostracon with a daily account of expenses, starting on the second epagomenal day, recording payments for hiring a donkey, oxen, wagons and wagon-drivers, a payment to a woman Senpetemenophis, and cheeses. It dates to the 2nd century AD and comes from Upper Egypt.
The epagomenal days are the five extra days added at the end of the Egyptian year. Several figures do not reconcile exactly (e.g. 6 oxen at 1 drachma 1 obol), so the arithmetic or readings may be uncertain; the opening '3' of line 5 may be a day number.
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.
ἐπαγομένων β. μισθοῦ ὄνου δραχμαὶ β ὀβολοὶ ϛ Σενπετεμενώφι δραχμαὶ δ τυρίων γ γ μισθοῦ βοῶν ϛ ἐκ δραχμῆς α ὀβολοῦ δραχμαὶ ϛ ὀβολοὶ ϛ ἁμαξηλάται β δραχμὴ α πεντώβολον ἅμαξαι δ ἐκ δραχμῶν δ διωβόλου δραχμαὶ ιζ διώβολον μισθοῦ ὄνου δραχμαὶ β ὀβολοὶ ϛ […]ν δραχμαὶ ια ὀβολοὶ ϛ […] δρα…
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