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Account of gold expenditures for bricks, water-wheel, vineyard and wine TM 35419unbekanntV

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A fragmentary account of expenditures in gold coin for the first indiction, listing payments for bricks, a cleaning substance, parts for a water-wheel, a vineyard, wine, and sums paid to a comes Theodoros and two women. Amounts are given in solidi less carats.

In English machine translation

[…] [Account of] expenditures in gold of the 1st indiction: […] for unbaked bricks, 1 solidus less 3 (carats), […] to […]on for soap (?) of the 1st indiction, 1 solidus less 6 (carats), […] to […]on for the price of a wheel-rim (?) for the use of the southern water-wheel, [1 solidus less] 6 (carats), […] [for] the price of soap (?) for the use of the vineyard […] of the second indiction, 1 solidus less 6 (carats), […] to the comes Theodoros, 1 solidus less 7 (carats), […] to […]lkyra for her own use and that of Ama Tarao, 1 solidus less 6 (carats), […] to the comes for 24 haplas of wine, 14 1/2 carats, […] to the comes, 1 solidus less 6 (carats), […]aph of the vineyard, 9 carats. […] 7 solidi less 40 (carats), 23 1/2 carats, that is 6 solidi 7 1/2 carats, […]aph for the gold tax, 4 solidi 14 carats, […] of old wheat, 1 1/2 carats, from the grain account (?) […] 1 solidus 11 1/2 carats. […]

Sums are reckoned as a solidus 'less' a number of carats, reflecting exchange of gold against bronze; 'smema' may mean soap or a wiping/cleaning material. The haplon is a unit of wine measure.

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 Expenditure). 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 · V

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