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An account of expenditure for Dorotheos, a wine-seller, from Oxyrhynchus in the 4th century AD. A gold solidus was exchanged for 2,250 myriads of denarii, and the sum was spent on food, linen tunics, and payments to Dorotheos himself, his brother Psyros, an athlete named Isidoros, and the writer and Papnouthios.
The very high denarius figures reflect the severe inflation of the 4th century; a myriad is 10,000 denarii. The opening 'πα' may be a number (81) or a heading of uncertain meaning, and the itemized expenses add up to 2,251 myriads, matching the solidus price almost exactly.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Money Account of Dorotheus the Wine-Merchant). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
πα λόγος Δωροθέου οἰνοπράτη ἀπὸ τιμῆς νομισματίου α δηναρίων μυριάδων Βσν ἀναλώματος οὕτως· τιμῆς σικύων β δηναρίων μυριάδων σμ ὁμοίως τιμῆς ἑφθοῦ α δηναρίων μυριάδων ρε Ψύρῳ ἀδελφῷ δηναρίων μυριάδων ρ Δωροθέῳ εἰς χεῖρας δηναρίων μυριάδων υ Ἰσιδώρῳ ἀθλητῇ δηναρίων μυριάδων υ τιμῆ…
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