Account of Expenses
List of payments for different purposes; the solidus is here equated with about 4000 myriads of denarii
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 37334
Account of expenses against two solidi paid through the banker Petros TM 37334UnknownVIth century A.D.
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A sixth-century AD account of expenses, reckoned against 2 solidi less 2 carats received through the banker Petros. Payments in myriads of denarii cover transport of garum jars and equipment from the harbour, clothing, belts, a saddle, spiced wine and a gift to the mother of Christodoros.
In English machine translation
[recto]
Account of expenditure of 2 solidi less 2 carats, with Petros the banker:
To a workman for wages for transport of three jars of garum, 65 myriads;
into hand 12 myriads; and dried fruits (?) via Eumelos, 1315 myriads;
total together 1327 (?).
To a workman for transport of equipment from the harbour, 50 myriads; and
for a shirt, 1260 myriads; and for two linen cloths,
2200 myriads; total together 3510 myriads.
For 4 belts, 700 myriads.
To the mother of Christodoros, three hundred myriads,
and into my own hands 60 myriads; total together 360 myriads.
Expenditure item by item: and for Charios for the saddle,
90 myriads. And […]
15; total together 292 myriads.
Likewise to the spice-wine seller, 102 myriads; total together 6037 (?).
Likewise 20 myriads, and for the 'less 2 carats', 3004 (?) myriads ⟦remainder 1270⟧.
Total 6691, remainder 1309.
[verso]
Remainder 1309.
Of which:
For carats […]
of jars, 167 myriads;
for consolation (?)
851 myriads; for the loan (?), 270 myriads;
to the spice-wine seller likewise, 90 myriads;
[…], 20 myriads;
for rent, 30 myriads;
to me on departing,
733 myriads.
Sums are given in myriads (units of 10,000) of denarii; the gold solidus here equals about 4000 myriads. Several verso terms (paregorion, echregma, enochia) are uncertain in meaning.
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 Expenses). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
p.mich.15.740
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