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Account of receipts and expenditure of the Apion estate at Matreu TM 22170Oxyrhynchos

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An estate account of receipts and expenditures submitted by Serenos, deacon and steward, to the great landowning family of Praeiecta, Apion and Georgios at Oxyrhynchus, covering the estate of Matreu and nearby villages in a 5th indiction. It records wheat and gold income and expenses such as grain for the estate churches and daily rations of bread, wine, meat and oil.

In English machine translation

[recto] † To the Flavii Praeiecta, the most magnificent wife of a consul, and Apion and Georgios, the most magnificent consuls, landowners also here in the splendid city of the Oxyrhynchites: account of receipts and expenditures made through me, Serenos, deacon and steward of Matreu, and in the village of Episemou and in the village of Adaiou and other outlying places, in the 5th indiction, as follows: † The receipt of the same 5th indiction is: of wheat, by the cancellus measure, 1,201 artabas, 5 choinikes; and including the weight allowance, 239 1/2 solidi less 96 carats (?); and without the weight allowance, 16 solidi. † From which was expended in the same [5th indiction] as follows: To the holy churches of the estate, according to custom, of wheat by the cancellus measure 3 artabas; 1/2 solidus less 1/2 (?). † For the days from Epeiph 22 to 29, 8 days, daily: of bread 150 pounds, of wine 17 double jars, of meat 50 pounds at 150 folles, of oil 6 1/4 sextarii; total for the 8 days: of bread 1,200 pounds, of wine 136 knidia, of meat 400 pounds at 1,200 folles, of oil 50 sextarii. [verso] [… 4 lines lost …] […] for the receipt of the villages, 5[…] myriads of artabas […] […] total receipts of wheat by the cancellus measure, 16 myriads 2,313 artabas [… 24 lines lost …] Total receipts of the stewards of Alexandria, 1 myriad 8,512 solidi … 191 1/2 1/4 [… ? lines lost …]

The 'cancellus' (kankellon) was a standard measure used on the Apion estates; the solidus figures 'less carats' are uncertain in reading. Apion and Georgios as consuls suggest a 6th-century date, but no date record is given.

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 Receipts and Expenditure). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.

p.oxy.18.2196

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · Oxyrhynchos

[r] † Φλαυίοις Πραιιέκτῃ τῇ ὑπερφυεστάτῃ ὑπατίσσῃ καὶ Ἀπίωνι καὶ Γεωργίῳ τοῖς ὑπερφυεστάτοις ὑπάτοις τοῖς γεουχοῦσιν καὶ ἐνταῦθα τῇ λαμπρᾷ Ὀξυρυγχιτῶν πόλει λόγος λημμάτων καὶ ἀναλωμάτων γενομένων διʼ ἐμοῦ Σερήνου διακόνου καὶ προνοητοῦ Ματρεῦ καὶ ἐν κώμῃ Ἐπισήμου καὶ ἐν κώμῃ Ἀδα…