Home › Spine › TM 20840
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 20840

Order to pay arakos for fodder of plough oxen TM 20840Memphites27. Dez. 608

The same ancient text or artifact as recorded by 2 records across 2 independent projects, recognised as one entity by its TM-Text identifier. View on Trismegistos →

A payment order in which Stephanos, 'servant of the Mother of God', instructs Ioannes, the tax collector of Ptolemais, to give 4 artabas of arakos (a vetch-like legume) to Ioannes son of Danielios, as repayment for fodder he supplied for plough oxen. It is dated Tybi 1 of the 12th indiction (27 December 608), in the Memphite nome.

In English machine translation

[recto] Stephanos, servant of the Theotokos, to Ioannes, collector (apaitetes) of Ptolemais. Provide to Ioannes son of Danielios, in return for what was given by him for the fodder of the oxen ploughing the 12 arouras sown by me (?), four artabas of arakos; total 4 artabas of arakos. † Tybi 1, indiction 12, total four artabas of arakos † Month of Tybi 1, indiction 12. [verso] † Tybi 1, from the most pious lord Stephanos, 4 artabas of arakos only.

Arakos is a leguminous fodder crop, often rendered as vetch or chickling. The phrase 'kata sporas' with the 12 arouras is translated loosely as land sown or cultivated by Stephanos.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Zahlungsauftrag). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.

DDbDP-text Full record →

cpr.10.3

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 27. Dez. 608 · Memphites

[r] Στέφανος δοῦλος τῆς θεοτόκου Ἰωάννῃ ἀπαιτητῇ Πτολεμαίδος. παράσχου Ἰωάννῃ υἱῷ Δανιηλίου ἀντὶ τῶν δοθέντων παρʼ αὐτοῦ εἰς τροφὴν βοιδίων ἀροτριώντων εἰς τὰς γεωργουμένας παρʼ ἐμοῦ ἀρούρας κατὰ σπορᾶς ιβ ἀράκου ἀρτάβας τέσσαρας· γίνονται ἀράκου ἀρτάβαι δ. † Τῦβι α ἰνδικτίωνος ι…