A seventh-century account from Oxyrhynchus listing payments in gold solidi and carats made to various officials and institutions, including the city and Alexandrian prisons, the archon's court at Alexandria, local police (taxeotai), and tax collectors receiving regular public taxes on behalf of named individuals. It ends with a payment for barley for a mill animal.
In English machine translation
To the public prison of the city, for the sums allotted to the prison of Alexandria, 2 solidi 14 1/2 carats.
To the most magnificent archon and his most learned symponos, for the expenses of the court of Alexandria, 129 solidi 14 carats,
and for the grain allowance of the local taxeotai, in pure gold, 103 solidi 9 1/4 carats, and for their customary expense 68 3/4 carats (1/2 + 1/4), making 2 solidi 7 3/4 carats; total, by the public standard, 106 solidi 6 carats. Of which there was given
to the embolator, the sums also brought back, 15 solidi; remainder 91 solidi 6 carats. Total, by the public standard, 91 solidi 6 carats.
To the chrysones and hypodektes of the regular public taxes, on account of Barbathios, the sums
also given on account of Theodoros and Ioannes son of Nonnous, by the public standard 2 solidi 2 3/4 carats, and
on account of Barbathios the sums likewise given for the public taxes of Serenos son of Nonnous, 3 solidi; by the public standard 5 solidi 2 3/4 carats.
To the same chrysones and hypodektes of the regular taxes, on account of Phoibammon the kephalaiotes, by the public standard 14 solidi 14 carats.
To the same chrysones and hypodektes of the regular taxes, for […] of the city, by the public standard 12 solidi 20 carats.
To Georgios and Ioustos, epimeletai and hypodektai of the regular public taxes, on account of
Philoxenos son of Theodoros, by the private standard 4 solidi less 8 carats.
To the most illustrious Agapetos, for the price of 76 1/2 artabas of barley, on account of Phoibammon the kephalaiotes of Alexandria, 5 solidi
for mill-labour, that is, for a mill-mule. […]
Sums are reckoned in solidi and carats by different standards (public and private), which differ slightly in value. Titles such as chrysones (gold collector), hypodektes (tax receiver), embolator (official for grain shipment) and kephalaiotes (head collector) have no exact English equivalent.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Account of 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.