An inventory of household objects, vessels, jewellery and clothing, including a figure of Aphrodite, written on the back of an earlier fragmentary account. The account on the front mentions totals, arouras of land, temple dues, drachmas and the month Epeiph. It dates to the 3rd century AD.
In English machine translation
[verso]
1 xestes (measure)
1 jar
3 bowls
1 libation cup
a pair of ladles
Aphrodite
a mirror
1 pair of bracelets
1 pair of armlets (?)
1 pair of anklets
a necklace
small lance-shaped ornaments, all together, so-called
a pair of small sacks (?)
a right-arm bracelet with 4 pearls (?)
a finger-ring ornament (?)
two small seals
a small tablet
cloaks, 2 robes
[…]
[… lines lost …]
[recto]
[…], total 854 […]
[…], total … 656 arouras […]
[…] remainder for the month […]
[…] Epeiph to […]
[…] of temple dues (?) […]
[…] additional payments 15 drachmas […]
[…]
[…] nor a half-obol […]
[…] of the underlying (items) […]
[…] until […]
[…]
[…] Hadrian.
Several jewellery terms (klanon, epikondylion, peridexion) are rare and their exact meaning is uncertain. "Aphrodite" probably denotes a statuette of the goddess.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Inventory). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.