Money Account
Account of expenses
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 41867
Account of expenses for wine and payments to police and guards TM 41867probably Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt(Early) IVth century A.D.
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An account of expenses listing gifts of wine, piglets and cash to local officials and police, including a decurion and his assistant, bath-guards, guards and bandit-catchers, with their values in drachmas. It probably comes from Karanis in the Fayum and dates to the early 4th century AD.
In English machine translation
Account of expenses:
To the decurion, 1 (measure) of wine, and to the decurion's assistant, 300 drachmas
and to Ptollas, 1 (measure) of wine, 240 drachmas
and 1 piglet, 200 drachmas
to the bath-guards, 1 (measure) of wine, 240 drachmas
to the decurion's assistant, 1 (measure) of wine, 240 drachmas
to the assistant of the bath-guards, 1 (measure) of wine, 240 drachmas
to the decurion's assistant, for travel allowance, 100 drachmas
and to the guards, 1 (measure) of wine, 240 drachmas
to the bandit-catchers, 2 (measures) of wine, 480 drachmas
to Plosanos, 1 (measure) of wine, 240 drachmas
to the bandit-catchers, 1 piglet, 200 drachmas
to the guard and … (?), 60 drachmas
and to the slaves (?), 120 drachmas
and to the man who came for the chaff,
1 (measure) of wine, 240 drachmas
and for travel allowance, 200 drachmas
and to Tourbon, guard, 40 drachmas
The 'lestopiastai' were village police charged with catching bandits. The word 'otangara' in the guard entry is not understood.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Money Account). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
o.mich.1.102
λόγος δαπανῶν· δεκαδάρχῃ οἴνου α καὶ βοηθῷ δεκαδάρχου δραχμαὶ τ καὶ Πτολλᾶτι οἴνου α δραχμαὶ σμ καὶ δέλφαξ α δραχμαὶ σ βαλανειοφύλαξιν οἴνου α δραχμαὶ σμ βοηθῷ δεκαδάρχου οἴνου α δραχμαὶ σμ βοηθῷ βαλανειοφυλάκων οἴνου α δραχμαὶ σμ βοηθῷ δεκαδάρχου ἐφοδίου δραχμαὶ ρ καὶ τοῖς φύλαξ…