Corn Account
Parts of two columns of a corn account.
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 25867
Account of wheat from plots of land TM 258671902Second half of 1st century A.D.
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Fragment of an account of wheat from various plots of land, listing areas in arouras and yields in artabas. It comes from the Herakleopolite nome and dates to the later 1st century AD.
In English machine translation
[column 1]
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[column 2]
of the 6 arouras on the edge of the desert (?)
I do not know ⟦wheat, artabas …⟧
of the arouras near the property formerly of Seneka, 7 1/2 (?) arouras, 40 artabas
of another 6 arouras in the so-called embanked area,
wheat, […] artabas […]
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"Paroreia" land lay along the desert edge, and a "perichoma" was an area enclosed by dykes. The figure read as 7 1/2 arouras is uncertain.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Corn Account). 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.hib.2.279
[1] [… 5 lines lost …] [2] τῶν παρορείων ἀρουρῶν ἓξ οὐκ οἶδα τῶν πλησίον πρότερον Σενέκα ἀρουρῶν ζυ ἀρταβ μ ἄλλων ἀρουρῶν ἓξ ἐν τῶι λεγομένωι περιχώματι πυροῦ ἀρταβ γ[…][…] [… 2 lines lost …]