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Monthly account in kind for the estate of Aurelia Demetria also called Posidonia TM 14919Arsinoites235 - 236

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A monthly account of wheat and payments kept for the estate of Aurelia Demetria also called Posidonia, managed through her husband Aurelius Apianus, a former exegetes and Alexandrian councillor. It records wheat carried over, issued for estate camels and donkeys, for bread-making for the household, and to various workers, from the Arsinoite nome, AD 235-236.

In English machine translation

[column i] [To Aurelia Demetria also called Posi]donia, through [her husband Aurelius Apianus], former exegetes, councillor [of the most glorious city of the Alexandr]ians, and however he is styled. [General] account of the […] [of the current month] of year 2. [From the account of the previous month] there remained 80 artabas of wheat, 2 measures. […] of the lord's camels […] of Eutyches […] 65; of these […] aforementioned […] 173 artabas of wheat, 6 measures […] 9 measures […] […] to donkeys in the […] 4 measures […] for bread-making [of the household] […] 2 artabas of wheat [for bread-making] […] of the household […] 9 artabas of wheat […] private person, 9 artabas and […]…[…]… 4 […]… […] [for bread-making] of the household […] 5 artabas […] soldier(s) […] 2 […]… […]… 3285 ⟦1 (drachma?) 4 obols⟧ 5 obols … 413 drachmas, 4 obols 3698, copper […] [column ii] brick…[…] brickmaker[…] … of which […] to Pellas the ox-driver […] …[…] to Horion […] for […] to Demetrios […] …[…] […] Apel[…] of the household […] to Serenos the […] of the freedman […] as of the […] to him […] to the same […] […] instead of bread […] to the same […] for bread-making […] […] and doctor(?) […] to the servants […] bread-making through […] to Eudaimon […] […] to Petesouchos […] … for bread-making […] Philokyrio[…] Auxan[…] to Alexander […] through […] […] of the household […] […] and […]

The opening address and the estate owners' names are largely restored. Year 2 refers to the reign of Maximinus Thrax.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Monthly account in kind). 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 · 235 - 236 · Arsinoites

[column i] Αὐρηλίᾳ Δημητρίᾳ Ποσιδωνίᾳ διὰ τοῦ ἀνδρὸς Αὐρηλίου Ἀπιανοῦ ἐξηγητεύσαντος βουλευτοῦ τῆς λαμπροτάτης πόλεως τῶν Ἀλεξανδρέων καὶ ὡς χρηματίζει γενικὸς λόγος τοῦ […] μηνὸς τοῦ ἐνεστῶτος β ἔτους ἐγ λόγου τοῦ προτέρου μηνὸς ἐλοιπογραφήθησαν πυροῦ ἀρτάβαι π μέτρα β […] καμήλ…