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Account of household expenses TM 38835unbekanntVII - VIII

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An account of payments made by a large household, listing payees and purposes such as doctors, a fuller, a monk, widows, a guesthouse, weddings, birthdays and festival quails. It dates to the 7th-8th century AD and mentions household needs in Oxyrhynchus.

In English machine translation

To Ioannes the foster-father (?) To the doctors To the fuller for handiwork To the slave boys of the household To Psensoerios the turner for a gratuity For the nuts (?) Broken little feet For sirotos (?) To the river workers working at the bakery Of Ioannes the fine-bread baker To abba Georgios the monk To Eirene […] For sirotos (?) To Loukas the slave To Phosphorios for handiwork To Menas […] Of Phellos from Teruthis To the farmers of the estate of Besios 26th, to the widows For the wedding of Philodespoine for a gratuity 29th, for the guesthouse To Konstantinos and Senouthes […] To the embroiderers of the household Pharmouthi 3, for an offering 7th, for the price of 1 pair of linen cloths For the birthday of the lady Ph[…] For the needs of the household in Oxyrhynchus To Priskos the soldier for 8 (?) linen pieces (?) To Anastasios the notary for a gratuity For the birthday of Patrikia To the glass-maker For quails on account of the festival Total of the 35 (entries?): 252

The amounts for individual entries are not preserved in the edition; only the final total (252) survives. Some terms, such as sirotos and the abbreviation read as etria, 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 Aufschreibungen über Ausgaben). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.

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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · VII - VIII

Ἰωάννῃ τροφῷ τοῖς ἰατροῖς τῷ γναφεῖ ὑπὲρ ἐργοχείρου τοῖς παιδαρίοις τοῦ οἴκου Ψενσοηρίῳ τορνευτῇ ὑπὲρ εὐποιίας εἰς τὰ καρίδια ποδάρια κλασθέντα εἰς σιρωτόν τοῖς ποταμίταις ἐργάζομένοις εἰς τὸ ἀρτοκοπεῖον Ἰωάννου καθαρουργοῦ ἄββᾳ Γεωργίῳ μονάζοντι Εἰρήνῃ α…ταριδ εἰς σιρωτόν Λουκᾷ …