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An account of receipts and expenditures in drachmas, listing sums received in Pharmouthi from a builder and a broker, followed by daily expenses in Pachon for beer, salt, bread and a strainer. It comes from the Arsinoite nome, probably in the second half of the 3rd century AD.
The received sums (448 + 200 + 144) total exactly the 792 drachmas given as 'of these'. 'Psomia' are morsels or small loaves of bread.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Abrechnung). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
[v,1] καὶ ἀπὸ τοῦ πρώτου λόγου Φαρμοῦθι δραχμὰς υμη παρὰ Ατωεις οἰκοδόμου δραχμὰς σ παρὰ Ἥρωνος μεσίτου δραχμὰς ρμδ τούτων ἀναλώματα δραχμὰς ψϙβ Παχών τιμὴ ὑλητῆρος δραχμαὶ […] ζ τιμὴ ζύτου Εὐπρατίῳ δραχμαὶ […]η η τιμὴ ζύτου Εὐπρατίῳ καὶ ἁλυκῆς δραχμαὶ ιβ ιζ τιμὴ ζύτου δραχμαὶ η …
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