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Private account of agricultural and household expenses TM 32488Oxyrhynchos1. Hälfte IV

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A fragmentary private account from Oxyrhynchus, first half of the 4th century AD, listing payments to workers such as donkey-drivers and a field-guard and expenses for reed-work, earth-carrying, digging, flax, rugs, an ox, orchard rent, transport and wine.

In English machine translation

[verso, column 1] [… lines lost …] […] […] […] […] […] 2 […] 3 […] 3 […] […] 1 […] of the surplus (?) [recto, column 2] Of Apollonios, on account […] ⟦…⟧ of Kollouthes […] ⟦…⟧ of Silvanus the donkey-driver […] ⟦…⟧ of Pathermouthios […] ⟦…⟧ reed-work […] To Pathatres […] For the price of yokes (?) […] Of Apollonios, on account […] Of Pathermouthios […] Reed-work […] Of the payment […] […]esios […] Of Paesios, for the price […] Earth-carrying for reed-work […] Digging […] Earth-carrying and […] Donkey-drivers, 18 […] […] (?) […] For the price of a nail for draining (?) […] For the price of flax stalks […] To Thrason the field-guard […] For the price of small rugs […] Rent of orchards […] For the price of an ox […] [lower margin] Account […] Of transport […] For the price of wine […] For the price of wine […] [upper margin] […] […] from me […] […] through […] […] of a file (?) […] […] purchase of warp-thread, 500 (?) drachmas […]

Kalamia refers to work on reed beds or reed supports, likely in a vineyard; chōphoria is the carrying of earth. Several entries are struck through by the scribe.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Private 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.

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p.oxy.49.3511

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 1. Hälfte IV · Oxyrhynchos

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