An account of expenses for shipping wheat down the Nile in boats, with charges for anchorage and a contractor's fee, followed by household expenditures. The verso records food purchases and a payment for baskets given to named slaves on the birthday of a woman called Antonia, held on Mecheir 6.
In English machine translation
[recto]
[column i]
[…]
[…] in 2 boats, […] artabas of wheat, which without the monthly allowances (?) are 1,500, drachmas 900
[…] of those carried down in four boats, 2,808 artabas, which without the monthly allowances are 2,700 artabas of wheat
[…] drachmas 1,800
for anchorage dues and expenses of the aforesaid 4 boats, at 12 drachmas 3 obols, drachmas 50
contractor's fee for the aforesaid 2,700 artabas, at 4 obols per 100 artabas, drachmas 18
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[…]
[column ii]
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price […]
drachmas […]
[…]
total for freight […]
drachmas […]
[…]
vessels for the slaves
4 for Kerinthos […]
[…] 1 […]
a sickle […]
and of the white […]
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[…]
[verso]
[column i]
[…]
[…] […]
(deleted: […] of oil […])
(deleted: 2 piglets, drachmas […])
(deleted: 4 feet of piglets, drachmas […])
(deleted: […] of a piglet for Dorkon, drachmas 6, 3 obols)
(deleted: […] and 3 wombs and)
(deleted: […] 1 smooth (?) and 4 feet, drachmas 6)
(deleted: […] and wombs and belly)
(deleted: […] 1, drachmas […] 4 obols)
(deleted: […] drachmas 34, 1 obol)
[…] remainder, drachmas 438, 5 1/2 obols
[…] wine, 7 keramia (?), 1 drachma 3 1/2 obols
[…] 2 obols
[…] 1 drachma 5 1/2 obols; remainder, drachmas 437
[…] of Kerinthos, drachmas 7, 3 obols
[…]
[…]
[column ii]
[…]
[…]
total […] 1, 3 obols […] 4 obols
total remainder, drachmas 433, 3 obols
(deleted: according to the)
(deleted: 29) and those received in advance from Apelleus through Lalos on Tybi 28, drachmas 68
Of these, spent on Mecheir 6
for the birthday of our Antonia
baskets for the slaves Phoibos, Germanus,
Aniketos, […], Euripas, Eutychas,
Kerinthos, Fronto, Harpokras, total […]
[…] 3, […] 2 […]
[…]
[…]
The 'birthday of our Antonia' suggests a Roman household, possibly connected to the estates of the imperial family. 'Epimenia' (monthly allowances) is a technical term whose exact sense here is uncertain.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Aufwendungen für den Transport von Getreide mit Schiffen, Warenabrechnung und ein römischer Geburtstag). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.