An account of money payments in gold solidi, grouped under several chartularii (estate or administrative clerks), mostly for dikes, reservoirs and a canal in villages of the Oxyrhynchite nome. It dates to the late 6th century AD and comes from Oxyrhynchus.
In English machine translation
[recto]
[… 5 lines lost …]
[verso, column 1]
[…]
for the people from Phakra, 1 solidus,
for the dikes of Sepho and Leonidou, […] solidus
With the lord Ioannes, chartularius, as follows:
for the people from Leonidou, […] solidus,
for Teruthis, 2 solidi,
for Takona, by note (?), 1 solidus,
for the reservoir of Isiou Panga, 1 solidus,
for the canal of the archon, 1/2 solidus.
⟦for the dikes of Sepho and Leonidou, […] solidus⟧
With the lord Apphouas, chartularius, as follows: for
the reservoir of Leon, 1 solidus,
for Matreou, 1 solidus,
total 2 solidi.
With the lord Anoup, chartularius, as follows:
for the settlement (?) of Phakra
through Victor, pronoetes, 1 solidus,
⟦for the people from Phakra, 1 solidus,⟧
for the people from Nike, 1 solidus,
for the reservoir of Pera, 1 solidus.
[verso, column 2]
With the lord Martyrios, chartularius, as follows:
for Parthenias, 1 solidus.
With Victor, chartularius, as follows:
for last year's reservoir
of the people from Ophis, 1 solidus.
With the lord Ioustos, chartularius, as follows:
for the reservoir of Skytalitis, 1 solidus,
for the reservoir of Apelles, 1 solidus.
With the lord Menas, chartularius, as follows:
for the reservoir of Kathegetes, 1 solidus.
Must be investigated. For the
dikes of Senokomis, […] solidus
A chartularius was a clerk or official handling records and funds; the word laccus here means a water reservoir or cistern. The recto contained a 5-line protocol (sheet heading) that is lost.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Protocol: Account of Money Payments). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.