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Granary receipt for wheat paid for Charax by Psensenmonthes TM 24452Theben23. Aug. 141

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A granary receipt on an ostracon recording that 1/12 artaba of wheat from the harvest of year 4 of Antoninus Pius was delivered to the metropolis granary on behalf of the district of Charax, in the name of Psensenmonthes son of Pikos. It is signed by the granary official Horos, at Thebes, in August 141.

In English machine translation

Measured into the granary of the metropolis, from the produce of year 4 of Antoninus Caesar the lord, Mesore 30, on behalf of Charax, in the name of Psensenmonthes son of Pikos, one twelfth of an artaba of wheat, total 1/12 artaba of wheat. I, Horos, have signed: 1/12 artaba of wheat.

The symbol ιβ here stands for the fraction 1/12, as the spelled-out 'twelfth' shows. Charax was a district of the Theban area.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below. 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 · 23. Aug. 141 · Theben

μέτρημα εἰς θησαυρὸν μητροπόλεως γενήματος δ ἔτους Ἀντωνίνου Καίσαρος τοῦ κυρίου Μεσορὴ λ ὑπὲρ Χάρακος ὀνόματος Ψενσενμώνθου Πικῶτος πυροῦ ἀρτάβης δωδέκατον, γίνεται πυροῦ ἀρτάβης ιβ. Ὧρος σεσημείωμαι πυροῦ ἀρτάβης ιβ.