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Agricultural account and expenses for making headstalls and halters TM 1406Kharabet el Gerza (ancient Philadelphia)mid 3rd c. B.C.

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Fragmentary accounts from the Zenon archive at Philadelphia in the Fayum, mid 3rd century BC. The recto lists land sown with wheat, barley and chickpeas, including plots linked to Heriamounis son of Oteuris in the 5th dike-enclosure; the verso, in another hand, records money spent on making headstalls, halters and leading reins from tow, and on madder dye.

In English machine translation

[recto] Wheat: 57 arouras Barley: […] arouras Chickpeas: […] arouras […] Heriamounis son of Oteuris […] in the 5th dike-enclosure 52 1/16 arouras, of which […]oros: […] arouras […]: […] arouras [… lines lost …] [verso] [… lines lost …] [… 2 lines lost …] […] to those who sew the headstalls […] […] halters and leading reins, 60 […] […] so that for the halters and headstalls being cut […] from tow, 50 (drachmas) 3 obols […] madder, 1 mina […] […] were […] 8 1 […] the 10 talents sent later […] […] headstalls and halters and leading reins, 10 […] Total 8 (drachmas) 2 obols […] 28, 60 drachmas 2 obols, remainder 19 drachmas […]

A perichoma is an area of land enclosed by dikes for irrigation. Several figures on the verso are incomplete and their units uncertain.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Fragments of accounts). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.

Fragment of accounts

Papyri.info — APIS (Advanced Papyrological Information System) — papyri · JE51707 · mid 3rd c. B.C. · Kharabet el Gerza (ancient Philadelphia)

On the recto an agricultural account. On the verso, in another hand, a money account, of which the part preserved deals mainly with the manufacture of headstalls, halters and leading reins.

p.cair.zen.4.59781

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · Mitte III v.Chr. · Kharabet el Gerza (ancient Philadelphia)

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