A page from an estate account book listing money received and daily payments to managers, stewards, vinedressers and others, including the cost of papyrus for receipts. It dates to the 3rd century AD and comes from the Oxyrhynchite nome.
In English machine translation
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Receipts likewise, […] drachmas
Balance from the previous month, […] drachmas
[1] To Kollouthos, manager (phrontistes) of Psobthis, through Hyakinthos, […] drachmas
[2] Received by Leon, steward (pronoetes) of the Petronian estate, against two handwritten notes of Om[…], son of Zoilos the cook, and of Aristion son of Aristion, […] drachmas
[3] To Hermammon the attendant […] […] drachmas
4 To Patas, manager of Artapatos, through Phranthome[…] […] drachmas
To Petseiras, vinedresser, through Te[…] […] drachmas
5 For the price of papyrus for receipts, […] drachmas
6 To Petron son of Loukios, for the price of […] […] drachmas
To Chrysantas, for expenses […] […] drachmas
To Sarapion […] Boubam[…] […] drachmas
[7] To the same, on the same day, […] […] drachmas
[8] To Apion, vinedresser, […] drachmas
To Ekorys (?) […] […] drachmas
To Pano[…] […] drachmas
To Pate[…] […] drachmas
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The numerals at the line starts appear to be days of the month; all amounts are lost. A phrontistes was a local estate manager and a pronoetes a steward of an estate unit.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Blatt aus einem 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.