A fragmentary account of expenses written on both sides of a papyrus, listing payments for goods such as mats and reeds, for workmen, freight, a ferry and various officials. It dates to the 3rd century AD and probably comes from the Arsinoite nome.
In English machine translation
[recto]
[column 1]
[…] in the folly (?)
…
[column 2]
From Ammonios:
reed-holder (?), 100 drachmas
for workmen, … drachmas […]
log (?), 1 drachma
…
[verso]
[column 1]
[…] of mats, 162 drachmas
[…] … 18 talents 384 drachmas
[…]kles, 42 talents 5,744 drachmas
[… 1 line lost …]
[…] of linen-weavers, 13 (?), 32 drachmas
[… 2 lines lost …]
[…] transport (?) of boat, 56 drachmas
[… 4 lines lost …]
[column 2]
For freight […]
for the freight charge […]
to the mattress-maker […]
small barges (?) […]
of Nikopolis […]
to the workman […]
of reeds […]
for barley-collection […]
for breakfast […]
of Sarapion […]
for the crown tax, … drachmas […]
for the ferry, … drachmas […]
… […]
to the searcher, per day, 4 drachmas
for the kydaros boat, 4 drachmas
to the epiplous (boat inspector), 4 drachmas
The large sums in talents suggest the high prices of the later 3rd century. The epipleustes and eraunetes were river-traffic and customs inspectors; a kydaros was a type of small boat.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Ausgaben für Gebrauchsgegenstände, Fracht und Gebühren). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.