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Account of wheat and barley deliveries by individuals TM 131099Trimithis (Oasis Magna)

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An ostracon account recording dated deliveries or payments of wheat and barley, in artabas and matia, by several individuals such as Petosiris, Psenamounis son of Harpaesis and Horos son of Petechon, over the months Hathyr, Hadrianos and Tybi. It comes from Trimithis in the Great (Dakhla) Oasis.

In English machine translation

[convex side] … 19 (?) Philom(…): Hathyr 29, wheat 2 artabas, barley 2 matia. Hadrianos 6, wheat 5 artabas […] 40, 12 (?) barley 4 matia. 15th, wheat 3 artabas 8 matia. 20th, wheat 5 artabas, barley […] Philom(…) 29 (?) wheat 2 artabas. Tybi 5, wheat 2 artabas. […] likewise 3 matia Petosiris, 53 (?): Hathyr 25, barley 2 artabas, likewise 1 artaba. Hadrianos 3 […] 9th, wheat 5 artabas. 18th, wheat 6 artabas 2 matia. Tybi 3, wheat 5 artabas […] Psenamounis son of Harpaesis: Hadrianos 10, wheat 4 artabas 1 mation. 16th, wheat […] artabas wheat 4 artabas. Tybi 11, barley 4 1/2 artabas […] Petosiris son of Pe(…): Hadrianos 12, wheat 7 artabas 2 matia, barley 3 matia […] 23rd, wheat 4 artabas, barley 3 matia […] (total?) wheat 10 artabas 4 matia, barley 4 1/2 artabas […] (total?) wheat 13 1/2 artabas […] [concave side] […] Hathyr 26, wheat 6 artabas. Hadrianos 12, wheat 6 artabas. 26th, wheat 2 artabas, barley 4 1/2 artabas […] … 15th, wheat 3 artabas. Horos son of Petechon: wheat 4 artabas, barley 2 1/2 […] … barley 2 1/2 artabas […] barley 4 matia, likewise […] … […] 1 mation

Hadrianos is the honorific month name used for Choiak in the Roman period, which points to the 2nd century AD or later. The mation is a small dry measure, a fraction of an artaba; some marginal numbers and abbreviations (e.g. 'Philom', 'is', 'pt') are of uncertain meaning.

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 wheat and barley). 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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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · Trimithis (Oasis Magna)

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