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Daily account of expenses for vegetables, meat and other food TM 39143Apollonopolites

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A daily account of household expenses, mostly for vegetables, along with meat, spiced wine and salted fish, covering the last days of Thoth and the first days of the following month. Some purchases are charged to the sailors, the servants and a group of Moors, and one payment goes to a man called Sansnos. It comes from the Apollonopolite nome in Upper Egypt.

In English machine translation

Thoth 27: for vegetables, on account of the slaves (?), 2 28: for meat, on account of the sailors, 10 for vegetables, 3 for balane (?) 2 30: for vegetables and cedar oil (?) and spiced wine, 4 To lord Sansnos for white (?) 3 for derpon (?) 3 1: for vegetables and spiced wine, 3 2: for vegetables and spiced wine and salted fish, 4 for vegetables on account of the Moors, 2 Kalo[…] 2 3: for vegetables, 3

The "Moors" (Mauroi) were probably soldiers of a Moorish military unit stationed in the area. Several abbreviated words (balane, leuk, derpon) are of uncertain meaning, and the sums are given without a stated unit.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Compte quotidien de dépenses). 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 · Apollonopolites

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