A short account of wine stored in double jars (dipla), recording stock, small issues to individuals such as Bes and Melas, and running remainders, with 12 unusable jars set aside. It dates to the 3rd or 4th century AD.
In English machine translation
Account of wine […]
Of wine, 200 double jars; others in […] (?), 27 double jars;
another for Aphrodite (?), 1; from Bes, 1 double jar;
and from the smooth ones (?).
To Bes […], 1 double jar;
to Melas, 1 double jar.
Remainder: 194.
Others through Aphrodite, for the price, smooth (?), 2 double jars.
Remainder: 100 double jars.
Unusable, set aside: 12.
A diploun was a 'double' wine jar, a standard storage vessel; several words (e.g. 'leia', possibly 'smooth' jars) are uncertain in reading and meaning. The arithmetic of the remainders does not fully match the listed figures as preserved.
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 Wine). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.