Account of barley
An account of the quantities of barley given daily to the dogs and to a certain Myrmes.
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 1339
Daily account of barley rations for dogs and Myrmex TM 1339Kharabet el Gerza (ancient Philadelphia)mid 3rd c. B.C.
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A daily account of barley rations issued in the month Apellaios, recording 5 choinikes (occasionally 3) for the dogs and 1 choinix for a person or animal named Myrmex. It comes from the Zenon archive at Philadelphia in the Fayum, mid-3rd century BC.
In English machine translation
[fragment 1]
[…]
Peeled barley
Of Apellaios
[fragment 2]
[…]
[fragment 3]
[15th: to the dogs, 5 choinikes]
to Myrmex, 1 choinix
16th: to Myrmex, [1 choinix]
to the dogs, 5 choinikes
17th: to the dogs, 5 choinikes
to Myrmex, 1 choinix
18th: to Myrmex, 1 choinix
to the dogs, 5 choinikes
19th: to the dogs, 5 choinikes
to Myrmex, 1 choinix
20th: to the dogs, 3 choinikes
to Myrmex, 1 choinix
21st: to Myrmex, 1 choinix
to the dogs, 5 choinikes
[fragment 4]
[…]
Ptisane is hulled or peeled barley, often used for gruel; the choinix is a small dry measure, roughly a day's ration. Myrmex ('Ant') may be a person or possibly an animal, and Apellaios is a Macedonian month.
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). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
p.cair.zen.4.59712
[1] [… ? lines lost …] πτισάνη Ἀπελλαίου [2] [… ? lines lost …] [3] ιε κυσὶν χοίνικες ε Μύρμηκι χοῖνιξ α ιϛ Μύρμηκι χοῖνιξ α κυσὶν χοίνικες ε ιζ κυσὶν χοίνικες ε Μύρμηκι χοῖνιξ α ιη Μύρμηκι χοῖνιξ α κυσὶν χοίνικες ε ιθ κυσὶν χοίνικες ε Μύρμηκι χοῖνιξ α κ κυσὶν χοίνικες γ Μύρμηκι …