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Account of expenses for an embankment and credits from estate villages TM 37941OxyrhynchosVI

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A sixth-century money account from Oxyrhynchus, probably of a great estate (the 'glorious house'), listing payments in gold solidi made against receipts from village headmen, a church steward, stonecutters, a brickmaker and fuel sellers, much of it for building an embankment. It ends with credits from several estate villages and a balance remaining.

In English machine translation

[column 1] [… lines lost …] [column 2] in the month of Pauni 16, indiction […] 3 solidi. By receipt of Georgios the elder (or headman), son of Phib, and Petros, village headman, son of Mathias, from the village of Isiou Panga, made in the month of Epeiph 10, indiction 13, 3 solidi. By receipt of the most pious Pambachios, priest and steward of the holy church of Abba Hierakion, made in the month of Pharmouthi 7, indiction 13, 3 solidi. By receipt of Kyriakos and Aeion, stonecutters of Trymios(?), for the price of stone bought from them for the needs of the embankment of the Southern Paroria(?), 2 solidi. To Ioannes, brickmaker, making bricks for the needs of the embankment of the same Southern Paroria(?), as wages, 1 solidus. By receipt of Victor from Polemon and Georgios from Herakla, for the price of fuel bought from them for the needs of the bricks laid in the same embankment, Mesore 6, indiction 13, 2 solidi. [column 3] […] month, given through him(?) 24 solidi; total 97 1/2 solidi. Total relieved (credited) on behalf of those in the following villages and estates of the glorious house and others, 83 solidi: through those from Takona 20 solidi; through those from Spania 10 solidi; through those from Tampeti 12 solidi; through those from Sepho 2 solidi; through those from Meskanounis 2 solidi; through the landlord's (estate) 37 solidi; total of the aforesaid 83 solidi. Remainder 14 1/2.

The 'glorious house' is likely the estate of the Apion family at Oxyrhynchus. 'Kouphizomena' means amounts relieved or credited, here offsetting the total expenditure.; 'Paroria' may be a place name for the edge of desert land.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Account in money). 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.oxy.18.2206

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · VI · Oxyrhynchos

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