A fragmentary account of expenses in talents and drachmas, listing payments for items such as a bed, boxes, linen, unstamped silver, purple dye, storax, glass and frankincense, with sums received from or paid to individuals such as Ouranos, a Syrian and Isidoros. It dates to the 3rd or 4th century AD.
In English machine translation
[A]
[Column 1]
Account of the entolikon (?)
[…] 1,000 drachmas
[…] 5,000 drachmas
Of the diastolikon 300 drachmas
Of the […] 300 drachmas
For a kamptra (box) 465 drachmas
Sagobyros (?) […] 3 talents 5,000 drachmas
Price of a bed 3,000 drachmas
Price of a kamptra 1,050 drachmas
Price of […] 65 pounds […] 240 drachmas
To the Syrian, for linen cloth, pounds, 10 talents
Price of unstamped (silver), 210 pounds, 10 talents 200 drachmas
And by hand […] drachmas
Storax 50 drachmas
Price of glass […] drachmas
From Ouranos
Price of purple 1 talent 600 drachmas
Price of unstamped (silver) 40 talents 4,000 drachmas
Price of unstamped (silver) 9 talents 30 drachmas
Of the diastolikon of year […] and […]
Total 68 talents 16[…] drachmas
Price of […] 5 talents
For the expenditure […] 520 drachmas
[Column 2]
[…]
[…] drachmas (?) […]
[…]
To Isidoros […]
[…] drachmas
[B]
[Column 1]
[…]
[…]
[…] talents, vessels 10, 5,006 (?) […] 240
[…]
[…]
[…]
[…]
[…]
[…] 1, 48 (?), 16
[…]
To others, 70 matia
To […] another, 13 matia
To […]doros, matia […] 11
[…] in sacks 46 […]
The second time […]
The third time […]
[Column 2]
[…] frankincense […]
[…] frankincense 1 […] talents
[…] of the sacks […]
[…] 40 talents
[…] of my […] 210 drachmas
Total talents […]
Entolikon and diastolikon are payment-order terms with no exact English equivalent; matia is a dry measure. Many readings, especially in part B, are uncertain.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Conti). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.