Fragmentary list of payments or deliveries in kind, recording individuals and the quantities of grain in artabas credited to each. It comes from Philadelphia in the Arsinoite nome and probably dates to the 3rd century.
In English machine translation
[recto]
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[…] son of Sarapion, 18 1/3 artabas
[…] son of Sarapion, 4 1/2 1/3 artabas
[…] brother, 4 1/2 1/3 artabas
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[…] of Arsinoe, 4 1/6 artabas
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Pekysis, 17 1/2 1/3 1/12 artabas
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[verso]
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Pekysis son of Hermaios, … artabas
Koutturis son of Sarmates, 8 1/2 artabas
Heron, 28 1/3 artabas
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The commodity is not named in the surviving lines; the artaba is a dry measure normally used for grain. The fractions are written as sums of unit fractions in the Egyptian manner.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Liste von Naturalleistungen). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.