Fragment of an account of expenses, listing payments for glass flasks, foreign wine, fish sauce, cooking boards, book cases, boat freight, mooring dues and fees to searchers and porters. Many items seem connected with a journey by water passing Nikopolis, near Alexandria. It dates to the late 3rd century AD and comes from Theadelphia in the Fayum.
In English machine translation
[column 1]
[… lines lost …]
[column 2]
for small glass flasks […]
for glass panes (?) 4 (?) […]
for a flask of foreign wine […]
for cooks' boards […]
for 2 cases for books […]
for other cooking items […]
for half the freight of a boat […]
for mooring dues […]
for 1 hut […]
for a second […]
for a four-columned (structure) […]
for beer, partial payment of the tax of Nikopolis […]
for the quay […]
to the searchers […]
to the record-keeper […]
[…]
[…]
to the searchers of the grain supply […]
to the searchers of the annona shipment […]
to the wood-carrier […]
for a raft likewise […]
for foreign wine […]
for […]
for a metretes of oil […]
for supervision […]
to porters […]
for a receipt […]
for foreign fish sauce […]
for jars of fish sauce […]
for supervision […]
for a receipt […]
to the searchers […]
[…]
Only the item descriptions of the second column survive; the amounts are lost, and the first column preserves only figures. The 'searchers' (eraunetai) were customs or inspection officials checking goods and grain shipments.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Account). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.