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An account from the estate of Apollonios at Philadelphia in the Fayum, recording day-by-day issues of wheat, barley, chickpeas, poppy seed, fenugreek and other produce to named workers such as Zoilos and Pasis son of Pharytes. The back records monthly grain rations to employees, including a carpenter and his assistant, sometimes paid in barley instead of wheat.
"Black-awned" (melanaitheros) wheat and "Byzantine" chickpeas are named varieties; the chous and artaba are dry measures. Hyperberetaios is a Macedonian month name used alongside Egyptian months.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Account of Expenditures in Natura). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
On the front a day-to-day account of general disbursements from a central storehouse which was part of the organization of the estate of Apollonios; on the back there is a monthly record of grain distribution to various employees
A fragment of an account, stating the quantities of wheat, chick peas, poppy seed, etc., given out day by day to certain persons, probably cultivators.
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