Account of food expenses TM 33663Oxyrhynchosspätes IV - V

An account of food purchases, recording money received and then spent item by item on fish sauce, vegetables, meat, fish, cheese, bread, honey and meals. The sums are reckoned in myriads of denarii, reflecting the high inflation of the period. It comes from Oxyrhynchus, late 4th to 5th century AD.

In English machine translation

The heading word holopoios is obscure; it may denote a cook or caterer. Amounts are in myriads (units of 10,000) of denarii; 'arkadia' and 'kaimia' are uncertain terms, the former possibly a kind of loaf.

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 Food). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.