A merchant's account of sums and goods received from and owed to various tradesmen, including perfume-makers, goldsmiths, a purple-seller, porridge-sellers, a cake-seller and a baker, with amounts in solidi and carats. It dates to the 6th century AD and comes from Naqlun in the Fayum.
In English machine translation
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99
I have from Joseph the perfume-maker 77 (?)
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I have from Alphios son of Chios mastic […] 2
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[…] 108 pounds at 42 to the solidus, 2 solidi 13 1/4 carats, receipt (pittakion)
21 (?): Sumas (?) the purple-seller has, through master Isak the wool-seller, 3 carats; illiterate […]
I have from Judas the goldsmith, through Theodoros son of Soterichos, 2 solidi 4 1/2 carats […]
Theodoros son of Soterichos has, through Judas the goldsmith, 2 solidi 4 1/2 carats […]
I have from Elias the Ascalonite, through Cheromenes the Ascalonite cake-seller […]
Likewise through Symon, 30 (?) carats […] of marjoram wine, wineskins, together 4 1/2 […]
I have from Stephanos the porridge-seller […] 2 baskets, 101 pounds […]
[…] clean, 94 pounds at […] carats […]
I have from master Symon the perfume-maker […] Symon […] 20 (?) carats […]
Symon the perfume-maker has […] cassia 10 pounds
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Stephanos the porridge-seller has […] 18 loads, the load at 5 solidi 2 1/2 carats, total full solidi 9[…] 3 carats […]
I have from Stephanos the porridge-seller through the goldsmith […]
Judas the goldsmith has, through the goldsmith […]
I have from Joses son of Koilos the baker clean loaves […]
Likewise […]
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[verso]
[…] 9 (?) 643
[I have from Haroi]meotes […] through […] 25, 29 full solidi, total 35 1/2 solidi
[…] lees of Italian wine […] 12 carats, receipt
[…] the perfume-maker […] 117 pounds at 3 1/3 to the solidus, total 35 solidi 2 1/2 carats
[Jac]ob the goldsmith, through master Karor the porridge-seller, on my receipt, 35 solidi 2 1/2 carats
[…] through Jacob the goldsmith, 27 full solidi
[…] the purple-seller, by hand, through 2 seals, 2 1/3 solidi
[…] the perfume-maker through […]arsos, 2 pounds 7 carats
[…] the perfume-maker through Theopemptos the goldsmith, 5 full solidi
[…] the goldsmith through Theopemptos the goldsmith, on behalf of Symon the perfume-maker, 5 full solidi
[…] the rose-seller, for the price of Knidian berries […] 2 solidi 12 carats, receipt
[I have from Elias] the Ascalonite through Cheromenes the Ascalonite cake-seller 4 carats
[…] Cheromenes the cake-seller through seal […]
[…] Cheromenes the cake-seller through Severus […]
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[…] the purple-seller […] 8 carats
[…] the perfume-maker through Theopemptos […] solidi […] carats […]
[…] through 8 seals, 1 solidus 15 carats, receipt
[…] 2 solidi, receipt
[…] Cheromenes the cake-seller […] 1 solidus 12 carats, receipt
[…] receipt
[…] 2 carats, receipt
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"I have" (echo) and "he has" (echi) mark credits and debits; pittakion denotes a written receipt or note. Payments are in gold solidi and carats (1/24 solidus).
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.