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Grain account with conversions into wheat equivalents TM 1554Philadelphia (Arsinoites)252 - 251 v.Chr. (?)

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Fragmentary grain account from Philadelphia in the Arsinoite nome, from the Zenon archive of the mid-3rd century BC. It lists quantities of wheat measured out and, against them, stocks of barley, mixed grain, olyra, sesame and other crops with their wheat equivalents.

In English machine translation

[1] […] […] wheat 700 […] we have had measured out […] as Anothis […] […] wheat 93 1/3 1/12 […] 2490(?) […] 593 1/4 […] 6043 1/2 […] 162 1/3 […] 6050 1/2 […] 6090 […] 12 […] [2] […] […] 161 2/3 […] […] [Against this] he has [of wheat] 1828[…] 2/3 [of barley] 1[…] 1/2 1/3, which make in wheat 6526 1/2 1/3 [of mixed barley-wheat] 1423 1/2 1/4, which make in wheat 854 1/4 [of olyra] [1]42, which make in wheat 56 1/2 1/4 […] 44 1/2 1/4, which make in wheat 44 1/2 1/4 [of sesame] 328 1/2 1/3, which make in wheat 1315 1/3 […] 7 1/2 1/3, which make in wheat 1361 2/3 […] of olyra 1 […] which make in wheat 561 1/2 1/8 […] which make in wheat […] […] […] 1 3510 […] […] wheat 19[…]

Commodity names in column 2 are largely editorial restorations; figures are in artabas and other crops are converted into wheat value. One record dates the text to about October 251 BC.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below. 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.lond.7.1992

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 252 - 251 v.Chr. (?) · Philadelphia (Arsinoites)

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p.lond.7.1993

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 252 - 251 v.Chr. (?) · Philadelphia (Arsinoites)

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