Account
Account in two columns, of which the first, recording payments in nomismata and keratia, is mutilated, the beginnings of the lines being lost throughout.
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Account of receipts and payments involving Lower Sasō TM 39443Oxyrhynchus7th century
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A 7th-century account from Oxyrhynchus recording receipts in gold solidi from the village of Lower Sasō and others, for wheat, wine, field-guards and charges of the 13th indiction, followed by payments to a steward, eirenarchs, and the dioiketes Victor.
In English machine translation
[Column 1]
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[…] for 110 artabas, 11 solidi 12 1/2 1/4 carats
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[Column 2]
through Tzittas son of Praus, for the appointment (?) of the steward, 6 solidi on the Alexandrian standard;
through the headman of Lower Sasō, for the appointment (?) of the 13th indiction, through Praus, 18 solidi 18 carats on the Alexandrian standard;
for the price of wheat sold to the people of Lower Sasō, out of 438 artabas,
at 1 solidus less 6 for 13 artabas, 33 2/3 solidi less 201 1/2 (carats?), on the Alexandrian standard 25 solidi 6 1/2 carats;
total 50 solidi 1/2 carat;
and for the price of wine, 120 solidi on the Alexandrian standard;
and for the field-guards of Lower Sasō, 14 solidi 15 carats on the Alexandrian standard;
and for expenses of the share of the 13th indiction, 22 solidi;
total 156 solidi 15 carats.
Total on the Alexandrian standard 1160 solidi 18 carats.
Of which paid out:
for the steward, 6 solidi on the Alexandrian standard;
for the eirenarchs, 6 solidi on the Alexandrian standard;
for Tpakekem, 37 solidi on the Alexandrian standard;
for the cession, 15 solidi on the Alexandrian standard;
and in expenses, 38 solidi on the Alexandrian standard; total together 102 solidi.
To the most illustrious lord Victor, dioiketes, 791 solidi 5 carats on the Alexandrian standard;
likewise on the 4th of the month Choiak, 47 solidi 11 carats on the Alexandrian standard; total 838 solidi 16 carats;
together 140 solidi 16 carats; to Quintus, in tow, 72 solidi; total 1012 solidi 16 carats.
Sums are reckoned in solidi (nomismata) and carats (keratia, 1/24 solidus) on the Alexandrian standard. The meaning of probolē (here 'appointment') is uncertain, and some arithmetic in the final lines is difficult to reconcile.
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 Receipts and Expenditure). 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.16.2033
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