Account of wheat and olyra
An account of wheat and olyra.
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 1358
Account of wheat and olyra with conversion into wheat TM 1358Kharabet el Gerza (ancient Philadelphia)mid 3rd c. B.C.
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A short dated account of deliveries or disbursements of wheat and olyra (emmer) over several days in the months Pharmouthi and Pachon, with totals and a conversion of everything into wheat equivalent. It comes from the Zenon archive, probably from Philadelphia in the Arsinoite nome, mid 3rd century BC.
In English machine translation
Pharmouthi 21:
wheat 108
olyra 70
22: olyra 261
Pachon 4:
wheat 182
9: olyra 105
14: wheat 4
16: wheat 6
Total: wheat 300
olyra 436
Total in terms of wheat:
altogether 474 1/3
Olyra is a husked grain (emmer) valued below wheat; here 436 artabas of olyra count as about 174 1/3 of wheat, a ratio of 2 to 5. Quantities are presumably in artabas, though no unit is written.
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 olyra). 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.4.59733
Φαρμοῦθι κα πυρῶν ρη ὀλυρῶν ο κβ ὀλυρῶν σξα Παχὼνς δ πυρῶν ρπβ θ ὀλυρῶν ρε ιδ πυρῶν δ ιϛ πυρῶν ϛ γίνονται πυρῶν τ ὀλυρῶν υλϛ γίνονται εἰς πυρῶν λόγον τὸ πᾶν υοδ γ