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Account of expenses including monthly payments to Dios TM 30609unbekanntIII

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An account of expenditures in drachmas from Roman Egypt, 3rd century AD. It records a flock of 172 'immortal' sheep, purchases of vessels and metal items, payments to rush-pluckers, and repeated monthly payments to a man named Dios for the months Epeiph through Phaophi.

In English machine translation

[Column 1] […] 600 drachmas […] 120 drachmas […] 700 drachmas […] … 40 drachmas […] 32 drachmas […] 10 drachmas […] 400 drachmas […] 400 drachmas […] 700 drachmas […] 44 drachmas […] … 400 drachmas […] 120 drachmas […] [drachmas] …20 [Column 2] Flock of 'immortal' sheep: 172 sheep For the price of wooden pails (?), woollen sheets (?), and stoppers (?): 500 drachmas For the price of cast and beaten (metal) items, through Patermouthis: 420 drachmas To Dios for the month of Epeiph: … drachmas To the rush-pluckers: 500 drachmas To Dios for the month of Epeiph, in addition to other sums: 500 drachmas To Dios for the month of Epeiph To Dios for the month of Mesore: 600 drachmas To Dios to complete the month of Mesore: 600 drachmas Cast items, through the coppersmith's slave: 32 drachmas To Dios for the month of Thoth: 600 drachmas To Dios for the month of Thoth: 400 drachmas To Dios for the month of Phaophi: 600 drachmas To Dios for the month of Phaophi: […] drachmas

An 'immortal flock' (agele athanatos) was a herd whose numbers were maintained at a fixed size, with losses replaced. The meanings of the rare words for the items purchased in column 2 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 Verzeichnis von Ausgaben). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.

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p.iand.7.144a

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · III

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