Fragmentary account of payments listing individuals, identified by patronymic, with numerical amounts beside each name. It was written on the back of a land register from Karanis in the Arsinoite nome, in the 2nd century AD.
In English machine translation
[verso]
[column i]
[…] …
[…] … 12
[…] … 12 …
[…] … 24
[…] Heraklas … 24 1/2
[…]on son of Apoll(…) 6 1/2, 12
Aphrodisios son of Antarion 7 1/2
[…]ophis son of Onnophris 3
[…]on, fatherless
[…] son of […]ilon … 1/2, 24
Ptolemaios son of Herakleides 3, 4
[…]mouth son of Kastor 9 … 3
[…] son of Petesouchos and his son 11 1/2
[…] … 19
[column ii]
[fragment a]
Ptollas son of Petsiris 10
Pnepheros son of Sisois 1
Horos son of Karas 3, 3
… 462 (?) … 32
[Phaoph]i
The unit of the figures is not stated; the fractions may be halves and other parts of a monetary or grain unit. 'Fatherless' (apator) marks a man without a legally recognized father.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Register of Land at Patsontis and Other Localities (recto), and Payments (verso)). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.