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Account of expenses for an official trip to Alexandria TM 33704unbekanntEnde IV

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An account kept by Dios, assistant of the tax receiver Konnaros, of gold received and money spent during an official trip to Alexandria in the ninth indiction. Expenses include payments to a goldsmith, customary fees to Alexandrian officials, pepper, his own wages, storeroom rent, pigments, hemp and boat fare.

In English machine translation

[Column 1] Account of receipts and expenditure of gold and miscellaneous items of the ninth indiction, through me, Dios, assistant of Konnaros, receiver of the same 9th indiction, who went to Alexandria and paid into […] the public treasury […] as follows: Of gold, total of receipts: gold, 12(?) solidi […] 8 from which were spent: to the goldsmith for gold, 1 pound 5 ounces, 5 carats(?) […] solidi […] and for the customary fee of the officials in charge at Alexandria, solidi […] to Isidoros, record-keeper of Alexandria, for the customary fee, solidi […] to the steward of the wax, for the customary fee, 1/2 solidus for […] of pepper, for 3 (measures of) pepper, solidi […] for me, Dios, assistant, as wages for going to Alexandria, solidi […] Total, the aforementioned sums of gold. [Column 2] Rent of a storeroom for the month of Epeiph, talents […] of red pigment and white lead, for […], 800 talents, talents […] of hemp, for […], 3 talents, talents […] fare of a boat going to Alexandria, 9 talents […] of wool for the familiaris(?) […] talents […] [… 4 lines lost …] to the weigher […] [… 2 lines lost …]

The first column records sums in gold solidi, the second in talents of debased bronze currency. The hypodektes was a receiver of taxes in kind or money for the state.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Rechnung für eine Amtsreise). 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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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · Ende IV

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