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An account submitted by Aischines to Zenon, estate manager at Philadelphia in the Fayum, recording how 10 artabas of barley were used as feed for horses and a mule. It ends with a short note of wages paid to the grooms Aristomachos, Haryotes, Dionysios and Dorion, who cared for a foal.
The artaba and choinix are dry measures of grain; an artaba held roughly 40 choinikes in this period. The arithmetic of the wage section is compressed and the remaining 4 obols are said to be held by Dorion.
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 barley and money, from Aischines to Zenon). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
The first part of the text is an account of barley for the horses. The horses had two feeds a day, and the allowance for each meal was thirteen choinikes for a horse and twelve for a mule. At the end is a short account of money given to the grooms for wages.
λόγος παρʼ Αἰσχίνου Ζήνωνι τῆς κριθῆς τῶν ι ἀρταβῶν. ἡμερῶν δύο γίνονται πενθημιαρτάβια χοίνικες τέσσαρες , καὶ ἄριστον τῆι τρίτηι ἥμισυ χοίνικες ἕξ , καὶ ἡμιόνωι τριημιαρτάβια, καὶ ἡμιαρτάβιον, ὅτε ὁ γλαυκὸς ἵππος ἔμενεν ὧδε, ωἴχετο ἔχων Ἀριστόμαχος· τὸ δὲ λοιπὸν ἐν ἐμοὶ καὶ ἀπὸ…
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