Fragmentary estate account recording sums in solidi and myriads of denarii and quantities of wheat, including public taxes, followed by payments to a slave-boy, builders and carpenters for work on a cistern, brickwork and an oil press in hamlets such as Pempo and Kamarai. It probably comes from a large estate in the Oxyrhynchite nome, late 4th to early 5th century AD.
In English machine translation
[Column 1]
[…] 33 1/2 and … and
[…] solidi …
[…] of Kamarai
[…] … 45 myriads of denarii, 12 carats (?) of a solidus
[…] …
[…] 660 myriads of denarii, 6 carats (?) of a solidus
[…] for
[…] of the eastern estate
[…] of the naubia
[…] 7 solidi, 12 carats (?)
[…] 50 solidi
[…] 21 1/2 solidi
[…] … 16 solidi, 3 carats (?)
[… 3 lines lost …]
[…] 1,292 artabas, 3 choinikes
[…] for public taxes, of clean wheat, 1,050 artabas
[…] … 4 artabas
[…] … written sideways …
[…] … by written order, 50 artabas
[Column 2]
To Stephanos the slave-boy for provisions […]
To the same, on account of Achilleus […]
To Dionysios the builder for wages […]
of a cistern on the land of Tmaste… […]
To Anoutios and Paulos, carpenters […]
To Aion the builder for wages […]
… in the hamlet of Pempo […]
To Dionysios the builder for wages […]
of brick in the hamlet of Pempo […]
To Aion the builder likewise, on account […]
of the oil press […]
To Horos and Paias, carpenters, on account […]
of the aforementioned oil press […]
To Aion and Neenephis, builders […]
and baking of brick in […]
5 myriads, and in the hamlet … […]
To Dionysios the builder on account […]
in the hamlets of Kamarai […]
To Anoutios the carpenter on account […]
of my lord the … […]
to the … […]
… […]
[… lines lost …]
Naubia were units of earth-moving work on dykes and canals; the fractions after solidi are read here as carats, which 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). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.