Account of deliveries of grain
An account of deliveries of grain. The account was kept by the Macedonian months and the grain was carried by mules.
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 1343
Account of grain deliveries carried by mules TM 1343Kharabet el Gerza (ancient Philadelphia)mid 3rd c. B.C.
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Fragmentary account of grain deliveries (barley and zea, a husked wheat) carried by mules, recorded by Macedonian months (Panemos, Loios). It names suppliers such as Aristandros, an architect, and Amyntas, with grain coming from their land allotments; from the Zenon archive, Philadelphia, mid 3rd century BC.
In English machine translation
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From Aristandros […]
of Dionysios […]
mules […]
from the same […]
mules … […]
Total, of barley 114
and from A[…]
from his own […]
for 10 days at … […]
the artaba 3 obols […]
and from Am[…]
the architect from […]
their kleroi
mules 10, of zea […]
from the same … […]
Total, of zea 16 artabas … […]
Total for Panemos […]
Loios
from Amyntas ⟦…⟧
mules 8, of zea … artabas […]
the artaba, total […]
Zea (zeia) is a hulled wheat, often rendered emmer or spelt. Kleroi were land allotments granted to military settlers.
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 deliveries of grain). 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.4.59716
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