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A farm account listing expenses in drachmas: barley bought at different prices, sacks, a pack-saddle, workmen, wine for the workers, fodder for a donkey, cash for expenses paid to Philoxenos and Tepolos, and cedar oil. It comes from Oxyrhynchus in the late 3rd century AD.
The listed items add up to 3,000 drachmas, not the stated total, which may include other entries lost or be a misreading. Ektinaktra are probably threshing or winnowing implements; kedria is cedar oil or resin.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Farming 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.
τιμὴκριθῆς ἀρταβῶν β ὡς τῆς α δραχμῶν ρξ, γίνονται δραχμαὶ τκ, τιμὴ σάκκων σιππίων δραχμαὶ σ, Φιλοξένῳ εἰς δαπάνην δραχμαὶ φ, εἰς κανθήλιν δραχμαὶ κ, ἐργάται β εἰς ἐκτίνακτρα δραχμαὶ υ, τῷ ὄνῳ κριθῆς ἀρτάβη α δραχμαὶ ρξ, τοῖς ἐργάταις οἴνου κεράμιον α δραχμαὶ ρξ, Τηπόλῳ εἰς δαπάν…
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