A 6th-century money account from Oxyrhynchus listing payments made by estate managers (pronoetai) of various localities for freight charges and the price of grain of a 12th indiction, and for dyke works. Sums are reckoned in gold solidi and carats on the Alexandrian and private standards, with a total of 73 solidi 12 carats.
In English machine translation
[…] for freight of the 12th indiction, 8 solidi (Alexandrian standard), 20 carats,
[…] for Timotheos, pronoetes of Pangouleeion, 3 solidi (Alexandrian standard), 19 1/4 carats,
[…] to Timotheos, for the balance of the freight of the 12th indiction, 7 carats,
[…] pronoetes of Pousempous, for the balance of the freight of the 12th (indiction), 1 solidus (Alexandrian standard), 7 1/2 1/4 carats,
[…] pronoetes of Psempekle, for the balance of the freight of the 12th (indiction), 13 1/2 carats,
[…] pronoetes of Phakra, for the balance of the freight of the 12th (indiction), 17 carats,
[…] pronoetes of Leon, for the balance of the freight of the 12th (indiction), 2 solidi (Alexandrian standard), 5 carats,
[…] pronoetes of Peras, for the balance of the freight of the 12th indiction, 9 1/2 carats,
[…] pronoetes of Neos, for the balance of the freight of the 12th (indiction), 2 solidi (Alexandrian standard) less 4 carats,
[…] pronoetes of Nike, for the price of grain of the 12th indiction, on the private standard 13 solidi less 51 1/2 (carats),
[…] pronoetes of Euangelios, for the price of grain of the 12th (indiction), on the private standard 12 solidi less 44 1/2 (carats), and 1 solidus (Alexandrian standard), 16 1/4 carats,
[…] pronoetes of Pousempous, for the price of grain of the 12th indiction, on the private standard 1/2 1/48 1/96 solidus less 2 1/4 (carats),
[…] pronoetes of Pakerke, for the price of grain of the 12th indiction, on the private standard 1 1/2 1/12 1/96 solidi less 6 1/4 (carats),
[…] pronoetes of Peras, for the price of grain of the 12th indiction, on the private standard 1 2/3 1/8 1/48 1/96 solidi less 7 (carats),
[…] pronoetes of Stephanion, for the price of grain of the 12th (indiction), on the private standard 8 1/3 solidi less 30 1/4 (carats),
[…] Joseph, pronoetes of the people in Tarouthinou, for the price of grain, on the private standard 5 1/2 1/3 1/8 1/96 solidi less 24 (carats), and 8 1/4 carats (Alexandrian standard),
[…] of Skytalitis, for the price of grain, 13 1/2 1/4 carats (Alexandrian standard),
[…] from Sepho, for the price of grain, 1 solidus (Alexandrian standard), 19 carats,
[…] from Spania, for dykes, on the private standard 10 solidi less 40 (carats),
[…] from Tampeti, for dykes, on the private standard 12 solidi less 51 (carats).
Total: 73 solidi (Alexandrian standard), 12 carats.
A pronoetes was a manager of an estate unit, probably of a great Oxyrhynchite household; 'less x' means solidi weighed short by so many carats on the private standard. The beginnings of all lines are lost, so the payers' names are missing.'
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.