Fragment of a money account kept for a man named Aninas in an 11th indiction year, listing sums received and expenses such as freight charges, camel transport, and river and canal costs, reckoned in solidi and carats. It dates to the 5th or early 6th century AD.
In English machine translation
Account of Aninas, 11th indiction, through D[…]
You have from the register (?) […]
You have for freight charges […]
[…]iridina […]
makarika (?) of sackcloth (?) […]
for freight charges of the factor (?) […]
and camel-transport charges and expense [of the river] […]
expense of the river and of the canal […]
of the one solidus, carats 1/2 1/8, makes carats 5 1/4 […]
for the Jewish (?) […]
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The carat (keration) was a fraction of the gold solidus, normally 1/24. Several words (brebion, makarika, phaktonarios) are rare or obscure and their translations are tentative.
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.