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Account of expenditures for a festival, monks and officials TM 36049AntinoopolisVI - VII

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Fragments of an account of expenditures in gold solidi from Antinoopolis, listing payments for chaff for animals, soap, fish, quails and chickens for officials at a festival, sums to a bishop, a physician, an anchorite, monks and the maimed.

In English machine translation

[Fragment A] [...] [...] [...] [...] [...] for the administration (oikonomia) [...] [...] of the monks, for baskets [...] [...] for the use [...] [...] of the new [...] [...] John through [...] to the most holy bishop [...] through [...] to the most holy bishop [...] for the price of chaff for feeding the animals [...] for the price of soap and red mullets for the use [...] for the price of quails for the use of the administration [...] of the scholastici and the collectors at the festival [...] for the price of chickens for the use of the pittakiarchai (?) [...] of the collectors at the festival [...] to Christodoros the physician, likewise [...] total, solidi [...] [Fragment B] [...] [...] [...] [...] [...] of wages [...] [...] [...] [...] [...] [...] for the use of the administration [...] [...] from Kalandos [...] [...] for the delivery of the [...] [...] [...] of silver, 18 solidi less 36 (carats) [...] Agathos the anchorite, 1 solidus less 3 (carats) [...] for the administration, 4 solidi 4 carats [...] for the distribution of the festival, 14 solidi less 56 (carats) [...] for the tax payment (?), 12 solidi less 36 (carats) [...] to the maimed, 2 solidi less 6 (carats) [...] (women) for the 2nd week, 1 solidus less 3 (carats) [...] total, 63 solidi less 166 (carats)

Sums are given as solidi 'less' a number of carats (para), a common Byzantine way of expressing gold by a lighter standard. The word charā ('joy') here seems to denote a festival or celebration.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as 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.

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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · VI - VII · Antinoopolis

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