Fragment of account of corn allocation
A fragment of account of corn allocation, concerning the household of Apollonios.
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 1299
Fragment of an account of grain allowances TM 1299Kharabet el Gerza (ancient Philadelphia)10th April - 9th May, 263 B.C.
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Fragment of an account recording grain received from Charmides and distributed in artabas and choinikes to various individuals for the Macedonian months Xandikos and Artemisios. It belongs to the Zenon archive and concerns the household of Apollonios, from Philadelphia in the Fayum, 263 BC.
In English machine translation
[column 1]
[…] from Charmides
[…] 23 Xandikos
[…] 20 artabas
[…] 7 choinikes; from these
[…] 1/2 artaba
[…]osthenes 3 choinikes
[…] through Iatrokles 4, 2 choinikes
To Theodoros for Xandikos 1/2 artaba
[…] 1 artaba
[…] for Artemisios
[…]kos
[…]
[column 2]
[…]
To Lykourgos […]
To Poseidonios […]
To Simylos […]
To Theodoros […]
To Apollonios […]
The artaba was a dry measure for grain, and the choinix a small fraction of it (roughly 1/40 to 1/48). Xandikos and Artemisios are Macedonian months used alongside the Egyptian calendar.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Fragment of account of corn allowances). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
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