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Account of wheat expenditures and wages in kind TM 25228unbekanntI - IV

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A fragmentary account of expenditures in kind, mainly wheat in sacks and artabas, delivered through donkey-drivers and paid as wages to workers, herdsmen and a baker. It mentions the Kynopolite district and the months Tybi and Mecheir; the verso totals the expenditure at 121 1/2 artabas of wheat.

In English machine translation

[recto] […] to the Kynopolite […] of Zoilos; likewise through […]ekis the donkey-driver, sacks […] through the same, for others, sacks […] likewise through Petechon, sacks 4 (?) […] 2 likewise through […]ekis the donkey-driver, sacks 2 […] and for the baker through […] sacks […] 6 synratisis (?) wages of Akous for 3 months, artabas […] to Sarapion the herdsman, artabas 4 for Bottos son of Panopheus, artabas […] and account of Apollonios, combined, 100; sacks 20 to Eutyches for days […] […] […] for likewise 3 days, artabas […] for the Orybion […], artabas […] to Karpytes for 28 days, artabas […] Mecheir: to Akos, wages, 1 artaba to Paesios likewise, wages, 1 artaba to the herdsman, wages, 1 artaba from Tybi […] to Mecheir 9, days […] to Polion and Eutychetion and Amesys […] […] of Euerios, wheat, artabas 9 3 (?) […] days […] [verso] Account of expenditure: wheat, 121 1/2 artabas […] as is owed […]

The word 'synratisis' is unclear in the edition and is left untranslated. 'Opsonion' denotes wages or rations paid to workers, here in wheat.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Λογαριασμὸς ἐξόδων εἰς εἶδος). 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 · I - IV

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