A fragmentary money account from Oxyrhynchus of the second half of the 4th century AD, listing sums in talents received from various individuals, many paid by written orders (pittakia) to persons such as Horion and Dorotheos the wine-seller. It also records a purchase of tow and conversions of gold solidi into talents and denarii.
In English machine translation
[recto]
[...]
[...] [...]
[...] barley, 3 artabas [...]
[...] for the price of hay [...]
[...] into the hand [...]
[...] of Amatios [...]
[...] ninth [...]
[...] of Papnouthios on behalf of Kastor from Bto [...]
[...] Dionysios son of Apollonios, on account of a pittakion, talents 1,..2 (?)
...los son of Isak, from a pittakion to Horion, talents ...800
...tas son of the priest (?), from a pittakion to Dorotheos the wine-seller, talents 8,466
...axapis, from a pittakion to Horion, talents 6,000
⟦from Kopreus son of Thonios, from a pittakion to Horion, talents ...⟧
and from the same Sarmates, of tow 42 bundles at 350 talents, total 1 myriad 4,700 talents
and from Apollos son of Dionysios to Dorotheos the tavern-keeper, talents 3,800
and from Kopreus son of Thonios, from the release (payment) of the handlers of the solidus, talents 6,000
and from [...]s son of Aphous, 1 gold solidus, talents 8,300
and from Sarmates, in completion of the price of solidi [...] ... the handlers in the village, 2 myriads 7,200 talents
[verso]
[...] talents ...[...]
[...] talents 500
[...] talents 500
[...] for 1 solidus, 3,245 myriads of denarii
[...] 900 myriads of denarii
A pittakion here is a written payment order or chit; the large figures reflect the severe inflation of the 4th century. The 'handlers' (cheiristai) seem to be officials dealing with money or goods in the village.
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). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.