One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 31827

Estate account with entries for brickworks, donkeys and labourers TM 31827Oxyrhynchosfrühes III

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Fragments of an estate account from Oxyrhynchus, early 3rd century AD, recording items such as brickworks operations, donkeys with the donkey-driver Zosimos, and payments to a builder, a potter and a donkey-driver, as well as entries for flax seed, fruits and weeding.

In English machine translation

[1] […] works of the brickworks 2 donkeys 3 donkeys (of which) donkey-driver Zosimos likewise Pachon, of the produce [2] […] to a builder of the wall to a potter to a donkey-driver of seed of flax-stalk […] of fruits of weeding

Only the headings of entries survive; the amounts that accompanied them are lost. 'Botanologia' refers to the gathering or clearing of weeds and herbage.

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 an Estate). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.

p.oxy.18.2201

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

[1] [… ? lines lost …] πλινθουργίου ἔργα ὄνοι β ὄνοι γ ὧν ὀνηλάτης Ζώσιμος ὁμοίως Παχὼν γενημάτων [2] [… ? lines lost …] οἰκοδόμῳ τείχους κεραμεῖ ὀνηλάτῃ σπέρματος λινοκαλάμου[…] καρπῶν βοτανολογίας