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Estate account of wheat and money receipts and expenditures TM 20958Oxyrhynchites269 - 270

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An estate account of receipts and expenditures in wheat and in money for year 2 of Claudius (Gothicus), from the Oxyrhynchite nome. It records wheat paid to vinedressers, donkey-drivers and workers, and money spent on cutting and transporting hay near Tholthis.

In English machine translation

[column 1] Account of receipts and expenditures of wheat of the current year 2 of Claudius: […] … 30, account 5 1/2 … 65 artabas from the vinedresser(s) (?) … 5 artabas Total receipts together: 70 artabas Expenditure for the month Pauni: Kopres Total from Tholthis in use 10 1/2 artabas, 5 artabas […] by written order: to Allonios, vinedresser, in part, 8 artabas to Herakleios, year 1, 40 (?) artabas for the newly planted vineyard, which he deducted on account of leases of payments for new plantings, 6 artabas … 10 donkey-drivers, 1 1/2 artabas to Peues and his children, 7 1/2 artabas to Epaphroditos and his son, 2 1/2 artabas to Zosimos, 1 1/2 artabas to Eu[…]aros, 1 artaba 8 choinikes […] from the month Pauni to Mesore, 3 months, 9 Total expenditure: 47 artabas 8 choinikes Remainder: 22 2/3 artabas 6 choinikes Account of receipts and expenditures through me, […] son-in-law […] […] [column 2] […] total receipts together: 1296 drachmas […] expenditure for cutting of hay, 32 1/2 arouras […] by Erlas and Rufus from the land formerly of Calpurnia … Paniskos and Ammonios, farmers […] 1 artaba of wheat at 24 drachmas … […] 5 arouras in the Aporikon, 120 drachmas […] 4 in the lands formerly of Tiro, farmed by Kopres, 96 drachmas […] year 1 in the same, Kopreas […] village headman of Tholthis for hire of donkeys … carrying hay, of which … 10 donkeys and 8 donkey-drivers, at 4 drachmas per head, total 72 drachmas for hire of 3 other donkeys and donkey-drivers likewise transporting the same hay, 20 drachmas for cutting of hay-seed crop in the Aporikon, 5 1/2 1/3 at 4 drachmas, total [23 1/3] drachmas Total expenditure: 1204 drachmas From other receipts: 1296 drachmas Remainder: 92 drachmas

The Claudius named is Claudius II Gothicus, whose second regnal year fell in AD 269/270. The Aporikon was a category of land, apparently of defaulted or unclaimed holdings.

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

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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 269 - 270 · Oxyrhynchites

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