A fragmentary account of expenses from an estate in the Panopolite nome, listing payments to irrigation workers, ox-herds, an account-keeper and servants for salaries, allowances and clothing, and for the price of pitched jars. Payments are connected to the hamlet of Psinabla and to a high official named Demetrios.
In English machine translation
owed(?) […]
[… lines lost …]
Total, as of all estate (ousiac) [items …]
To the pourers (periychytai) and ox-herds […]
To the ox-herds of the public (estate), for [salary …]
For the price of pitched jars (koupha) […]
To the most magnificent Demetrios […]
For the price of jars likewise pitched […]
On account of allowance (opsonion) and […] and clothing of various [persons …]
as follows:
To those listed below from the hamlet of Psinabla of Philoxenos
as follows:
To the account-keeper (logographos) of the same estate administration (oikonomia) of Psinabla, for salary […]
To Kosmas, servant, and […] and for salary and clothing of the whole [year …]
as listed below […] solidi […]3
For his salary […]
For salary and […] and […]
[…]sputeros(?) […] for his salary for the whole year of the [4th indiction …]
[…] for his salary for the whole year of the 4th indiction […]
Koupha are light jars, here lined with pitch for wine; the periychytai were probably workers who poured or tended water or wine. The honorific 'most magnificent' and the term 'indiction' suggest a date later than the 4th century given in the records.
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 expenses). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.