A small fragment of an account of agricultural produce, probably grain, recording quantities in artabas and choinikes, including purchased grain and an allowance to a man named Dames. It comes from Philadelphia in the Arsinoite nome and dates to the mid-3rd century BC.
In English machine translation
[…]
[…] … 1/2, 6 choinikes
[…] … 2 1/2, … choinikes
[…] together 3 1/4 artabas, 6 1/2 choinikes
He has, of purchased (grain), 2 artabas, from which
[…] and to Dames, the man from
[…] who has been added, 1 choinix; total 1 1/2 choinikes
[…] total … total … 9 1/2
[…]
The artaba was the standard dry measure for grain; a choinix was a small fraction of it. The text belongs to the Zenon archive context of Philadelphia.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Abrechnung über landwirtschaftliche Erzeugnisse). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.