A fourth-century account from an estate near Oxyrhynchus listing expenditures of wheat in artabas: grain loaded onto the public ship, payments to the estate's men, shepherds, ox- and donkey-drivers, the landowner, and seed issued for sowing to various farmers.
In English machine translation
[column 1]
Of expenditure, likewise:
loaded into the public ship
of dirty wheat, 800 artabas
16
⟦72 1/2⟧
measuring charge (?), 4 artabas
To Dorotheos, our own man, by written order, 7 artabas
To Panes, shepherd, by written order, 3 artabas ⟦1/2⟧
To the same Panes, shepherd, by written order, artabas
⟦13 1/2⟧ ⟦1⟧
10 1/2 artabas
To Leon, ox-driver, for his wages, 20 artabas
To the landowner, for the price of a pig
which was released (?) to her, artabas
[…] 1/2
To Ammonas, for allowance, artabas […]
To […]tarchos, donkey-driver, artabas […]
To […]as, for small loaves, artabas […]
To […], artabas […]
[…] for the vintage
[…] artabas
3, of bread 3 artabas,
total 6 artabas […]
[…]
[…]
[column 2]
To Aphous, elder, and Ammon […]
son of Asynkritios, for the wages of a new planting (?) […]
of the farmstead (?) Keramion, artabas […]
To Hatres son of Lotas, for sowing […]
To Eulogios, for sowing […]
To Pathermouthis, cobbler, for sowing […]
To Ammon son of Asynkritios, for sowing, artabas […]
To Paulos son of Harsas, for sowing […]
To Abourios from Phankona, for sowing […]
[…]
The landowner (geouchos) is a woman. Several figures were corrected by the scribe, and the amounts in column 2 are lost.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Estate 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.