Part of an official grain account recording payments in wheat to cattle-keepers (owners of transport animals) of Sobthis in the Herakleopolite nome and of villages in the Kynopolite nome for transporting grain from Arsinoite granaries. It closes with totals of expenditures and of wheat, barley and lentils remaining, dated in year 8 of Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus (AD 168).
In English machine translation
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and through another (order), dated Year 8, Tybi 26:
to the cattle-keepers of the village of Sobthis in the Herakleopolite nome, for transport charges for work which they were declared to have done in the time of the acting strategos Heliodoros, from the granaries of the Themistos division: of the harvest of Year 3, 29 artabas of wheat,
Year 4, 160 artabas of wheat, Year 5, 198 artabas of wheat, Year 6, 33 artabas of wheat, total 420 artabas of wheat; and in the time of
Ptolemaios, former royal scribe of the Themistos division, who took over the affairs of the strategia from Pharmouthi of Year 4 until Epeiph,
in accordance with the order sent by Ptolemaios to Heliodoros, his successor, and now brought forward:
of the harvest of Year 2, 81 1/4 artabas of wheat, of the harvest of Year 3, 119 1/4 artabas of wheat, total 200 1/2 artabas of wheat;
total of the order, 620 1/2 artabas of wheat;
and through another (order), dated Year 8, Mecheir 11:
to the cattle-keepers of villages of the Kynopolite nome, through Sarapion son of Heleis, appointed by them as representative,
for transport charges for the work they did in the time of Harpokration, from the granaries of the Polemon division, of the harvest of Year 3 of Antoninus
and Verus the lords Emperors, 558 1/2 1/3 artabas of wheat;
total of the order, 558 1/2 1/3 artabas of wheat;
total of the amounts reported as expenditures, 5626 7/8 (?) artabas of wheat;
remainder in the places of the state (dioikesis) and estate (ousiac) land, 11,884 1/2 1/2 (?) artabas of wheat,
9 artabas of barley, 2163 artabas of lentils.
Year 8 of Antoninus and Verus the lords Augusti, Armeniaci, Medici, Parthici
Maximi.
Ktenotrophoi were keepers of pack animals hired for grain transport; the beginning of the account is lost. Some fraction signs in the totals are uncertain in the edition.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Bericht über Naturalzahlungen an κτηνοτρόφοι). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.