Account of barley
An account of barley given to donkeys and horses.
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 1340
Account of barley rations for donkeys and horses TM 1340Kharabet el Gerza (ancient Philadelphia)mid 3rd c. B.C.
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A fragmentary account of barley rations issued to animals: a female donkey, a stud donkey, a stud horse and a horse belonging to Neoptolemos. It comes from the Zenon archive, probably from Philadelphia in the Arsinoite nome, in the mid 3rd century BC.
In English machine translation
[recto]
To the female donkey, 2 choinikes (daily) from the 21st to the 30th, 10 days, total 20 choinikes
To the stud donkey, for 2 days, 8 choinikes
To the stud horse, 2 choinikes
Total 30 choinikes
To the horse of Neoptolemos, 4 choinikes
[…]
[verso]
12, 4 choinikes
The choinix is a dry measure, a small fraction of an artaba; the commodity (barley) is identified from the catalogue records, not named in the surviving text. The totals do not add up exactly (20 + 8 + 2 = 30, excluding Neoptolemos' horse).
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 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.4.59713
[r] θηλείαι ὄνωι χοίνικες β ἀπὸ κα ἕως λ ἡμερῶν ι γίνονται χοίνικες κ ὄνωι ὀχευτῆι ἡμερῶν β χοίνικες η ἵππωι ὀχευτῆι χοίνικες β γίνονται χοίνικες λ Νεοπτολέμου ἵππωι χοίνικες δ [… ? lines lost …] [v] ιβ χοίνικες δ