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Account of donkey-drivers' wages for transport from Pakerke TM 31805OxyrhynchosIII

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An account of payments to donkey-drivers from Pakerke for donkey-loads of transport, with deductions and instalments received. It also records loads handled by the drivers Plelo and Syron, whose wages were settled through Severus' accounts or credited against a farmer's rent. From Oxyrhynchus, 3rd century AD.

In English machine translation

Account of the donkey-drivers from Pakerke, as shown through […]. From Pakerke, 181 donkeys at 2 drachmas 4 obols each, 465 drachmas 3 obols, from which are deducted, for 37 bundles (?) carried from the river to the threshing-floor at 4 obols each, 21 drachmas 1 obol; remainder 444 drachmas 2 obols, of which I received 100 drachmas, another 100 drachmas, another 200 drachmas, total 400 drachmas; remainder 44 drachmas 2 obols. And through the donkey-driver Plelo, 57 donkeys, whose wage was paid out through the accounts of Severus. And through the donkey-driver Syron, 255 donkeys, whose wage was credited to Amois the cultivator from what he owed in rent. […]

"Donkeys" here means donkey-loads. The mandakia are probably bundles or sheaves carried from the river to the threshing-floor; the term is uncertain.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Account of Donkey - drivers). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.

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p.oxy.14.1748

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · III · Oxyrhynchos

λόγος ὀνηλατῶν ἀπὸ Πακέρκη ὡς διὰ …… δηλοῦται. ἀπὸ Πακέρκη ὄνοι ρπα ὡς τοῦ α δραχμῶν β τετρωβόλου δραχμαὶ υξε τριώβολον, ἐξ ὧν ἐκκρούονται ὑπὲρ μανδακίων λζ ἀπὸ ποταμοῦ ἄχρι τῆς ἅλω μετενεχθέντων ὡς τοῦ α τετρωβόλου δραχμαὶ κα ὀβολός, λοιπαὶ δραχμαὶ υμδ διώβολον ὧν ἔσχον δραχμὰς …