An account of distributions of wine jars (monochora and dichora) to donkey-drivers, wood-guards, village officials and others, with a running money account between the writer and Polion son of Heras and his brother. It comes from Theadelphia in the Arsinoite nome, mid-3rd century AD.
In English machine translation
[verso]
[column 1]
Painas, donkey-driver, 1 monochoron
Palemon, donkey-driver, 1 monochoron
Pouneus, 1 monochoron
Silvanus, 1 monochoron
To the komarch for Pmoue[…], 1 monochoron
Horeion […], 2 monochora
K[…], 1 monochoron
Rae[…], 1 monochoron
Ammonios, 1 monochoron
Phileas son of Heras, 1 monochoron
[…]oras, 1 monochoron
[…]erleo[…], [1 monochoron]
[…]ammon, [monochora …]
[…]otazei, 1 monochoron
[column 2]
Eudaimon, wood-guard, 1 monochoron
Kollouthos son of Heron(?), 1 monochoron
To the komarch through Paomis, for the guard of the centurion, 1 monochoron
Likewise through Patron, 1 monochoron
Likewise through Patron, 1 monochoron
Total together 31, up to the 7th
To the komarch for the pursuer (diokt"es), 1 monochoron
To the guard of the centurion through Kouis, 1 monochoron
[…]azoum, 2 monochora
Panameus son of Didymos, 2 monochora
Painas, donkey-driver, 1 monochoron
Pauites, donkey-driver, 1 monochoron
Eudaimon, wood-guard, 3 monochora
[…]ane[…], 1 monochoron
Sarapammon, ox-driver, 1 monochoron
[column 3]
To Chairemon through Zosimos, 1 monochoron
To Agenor, 1 monochoron
15th: to Heron, on his arrival, 1 monochoron
16th: Chairemon, wood-guard, 1 monochoron
Penes, donkey-driver, 1 monochoron
Pouneus, 1 monochoron
Thrakoulis and Horeion, 2 monochora
Account of Polion son of Heras and his brother:
The whole account having been settled up to Phaophi 2, I myself owe him 28 drachmas 12 obols; 12 (workers?), 8 drachmas; further, 1 dichoron, 18 drachmas 2 obols.
The whole account having been settled up to Phaophi 22, I owe 30 drachmas in bronze,
of which he received 1 dichoron, 18 drachmas 2 obols, and 8 drachmas,
and likewise for Hathyr another 11 workers, 18 drachmas in bronze.
The whole account having been settled up to Hathyr 21, I owe 14 drachmas in bronze
[bottom margin] apart from other items
[right margin] The whole account having been settled up to Hathyr 24, I owe 32 drachmas 4 obols
[recto]
[A]
[…] from […]
[…] 8
[…]mon, harbour-guard, 2
[…]en, 1
[…]asis, 2
[…] 2 monochora
[…]nai through
[…] estate worker(?) […] 1
[…] 1 monochoron
[…] 2 monochora
[…] 1, 8
[B]
104 monochora, 96, and stored Oxyrhynchite jars 5, 2 monochora
Total 136, 128
[C]
Account of expenditure: 48 monochora
of which expended on Choiak 12, to us 1
Kastor son of Euenos, 1 monochoron
Chairemon […], 1 monochoron
Dioskoros, donkey-driver, 1 monochoron
15th: to the komarch, 2 monochora
[D]
In stock: 4 dichora
Monochoron and dichoron are wine jars of one and two choes capacity; the commodity (wine) is inferred. The text likely belongs to the Heroninos estate archive.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Conti). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.