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Account of artabas distributed to named individuals, including a gladiator TM 144655Didymoi

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An ostracon account from the Roman fort of Didymoi in the Eastern Desert listing men, many of them Aurelii and Julii, with quantities in artabas, probably of grain, issued or owed to each. One entry records 2 artabas for Postulas, described as a gladiator.

In English machine translation

Aurelius Eponychos 2 artabas, Aurelius Eudaimon 2 artabas, Aurelius Chairemon 2 artabas, Aurelius Isidoros 2 artabas, Pakybis Isidoros 2 artabas, Syros Kasianos 2 artabas, Julius Herakles 1 artaba, Eponychos Memnon 1 artaba, Julius Tyrannos 1 artaba Komaros son of Komaros … 1/2 artabas, Didymos son of Kopres 1 1/2 artabas Annis A…s 1 1/2 artabas, Ph[…]…nis Petosiris 1 1/2 artabas …at… 1/2 […] Julianus 1/2 To Postulas the gladiator 2 artabas […] o…eino[…]geirou artabas […]

The commodity measured in artabas is not named but is probably grain. The word monomachos ('gladiator') is partly restored.

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

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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · Didymoi

Αὐρήλις Ἐπώνυχος ἀρτάβαι β, Αὐρήλις Εὐδαίμων ἀρτάβαι β, Αὐρήλις Χαιρήμων ἀρτάβαι β, Αὐρήλις Ἰσίδωρος ἀρτάβαι β, Πάκυβις Ἰσίδωρος ἀρτάβαι β, Σύρος Κασιανὸς ἀρτάβαι β, Ἰούλις Ἡρακλῆς ἀρτάβη α, Ἐπώνυχος Μέμνων ἀρτάβη α, Ἰούλις Τύραννος ἀρτάβη α Κόμαρος Κομάρου ἀρτάβαι … ἥμισυ , Δίδυ…