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A short note on an ostracon recording wheat payments by two persons, Senphthomonthes son of Pamontkametis and Petechonsis also called Panechates. The first paid toward the one-artaba tax, the second paid on temple (hieratic) land for the harvests of years 3 and 6. It comes from Thebes in the 2nd century AD.
The monartabia was a land tax of one artaba of wheat per aroura; 'hieratic' refers to land classed as temple land, and the word 'arouras' is understood rather than written. Fractional figures follow Egyptian unit-fraction notation and some sums are uncertain where the text is damaged.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Notiz über zwei Zahlungen in Weizen). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
Σενφθομώνθης Παμοντκαμήτιος μοναρταβία πυροῦ ἀρτάβης 𐅵,[…] πυροῦ ἀρτάβης η, ἀπο πυροῦ ἀρτάβης 𐅵 γ, Νήσου πυροῦ ἀρτάβης ϛ γίνεται πυροῦ ἀρτάβη α 𐅵 κδ. Πετεχῶνσις ὃς καὶ Πανεχάτης κδ ἱερατικῶν ἀπὸ γενήματος γ ἔτους πυροῦ ἀρτάβας ζ 𐅵 δ, ϛ ἔτους πυροῦ ἀρτάβας γ 𐅵 γ η, γίνονται πυροῦ …
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