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Accounts from the estate of Apollonios, probably at Philadelphia in the Fayum, in the 3rd century BC. The front lists one day's grain rations in wheat and fine flour for slaves and staff, including the steward Spinther, a weaver, slave boys and even the dogs; the back records daily cash payments on days 23 to 29 of a month for wages, weeding, barley, boots, pottery and travel.
One record dates the text 248-245 BC instead of 245-239 BC. Machimoi were native Egyptian soldiers or guards; the figures on the recto are mostly choinikes, a dry measure (about 1/40 artaba in some systems).
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Accounts of Expenditures of Wheat and Money). 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 an account of food allowances paid as salary for one day to the employees of Apollonios' estate; the food assignments (sitometria) consisted of two different kind of wheat; on the back there is a list of expenditures for the last 7 days of an unnamed month: the amoun…
[r] Φαίδρωι α 𐅵 Δοξαίωι α 𐅵 Ὠφελίωνι α 𐅵 Χαρμίδης α 𐅵 Νουμήνιος α 𐅵 Ἕρμις α 𐅵 Ἐφέσωι α 𐅵 Νουμηνίωι α 𐅵 Ἔβρος α 𐅵 Σπίνθηρ ὑφάντης α 𐅵 Πόρος α 𐅵 Δάμων α 𐅵 Ἀρτεμίδωρος α 𐅵 Γλαυκίας α 𐅵 Σπίνθηρ ὁ οἰκονόμος α 𐅵 Σατύρωι α 𐅵 Τερπὼ α 𐅵 γίνονται παῖδες ιζ γίνονται χοίνικες κε 𐅵 Λυκάνωι σι…
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