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A daily account of wheat rations from the Zenon archive, recording grain drawn from a stock and issued day by day in the month Tybi of year 37, with allowances for named persons such as Satyros, Dionysios and the slave boy Stachys. It dates to early 248 BC at Philadelphia in the Arsinoite nome.
The choinix is a small dry measure, roughly a daily ration, with many choinikes to the artaba. Several fractions in the edition are ambiguous, so some figures are approximate.
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.
[r,1] ἔτους λζ Τῦβι α. ἐκ λόγου ἀρτάβαι η χοίνιξ τούτων α ταγὴ προσκειμένου Σατύρου χοίνιξ α 𐅵 ἀρτάβης 𐅵 δ χοίνικες δ β τὸ αὐτὸ 𐅵 δ χοίνικες δ γ τὸ αὐτὸ ἀρτάβης 𐅵 δ χοίνικες δ δ τὸ αὐτὸ 𐅵 δ χοίνικες δ ε τὸ αὐτὸ 𐅵 δ χοίνικες δ τὸ αυτὸ 𐅵 γ χοίνικες δ ζ τὸ αὐτὸ 𐅵 δ χοίνικες δ γίνετα…
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