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List of payments in kind in artabas TM 27595Philadelphia (Arsinoites)III (?)

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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] [… 2 lines lost …] […] son of Sarapion, 18 1/3 artabas […] son of Sarapion, 4 1/2 1/3 artabas […] brother, 4 1/2 1/3 artabas [… 9 lines lost …] […] of Arsinoe, 4 1/6 artabas [… 2 lines lost …] Pekysis, 17 1/2 1/3 1/12 artabas [… 4 lines lost …] [verso] [… 4 lines lost …] Pekysis son of Hermaios, … artabas Koutturis son of Sarmates, 8 1/2 artabas Heron, 28 1/3 artabas [… 12 lines lost …]

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.

bgu.7.1633

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · III (?) · Philadelphia (Arsinoites)

[r] [… 2 lines lost …] […] Σαραπίωνος ἀρτάβαι ιη γ […] Σαραπίωνος ἀρτάβαι δ 𐅵 γ […]ἀδελφὸς ἀρτάβαι δ 𐅵 γ [… 9 lines lost …] […] Ἀρσινόης ἀρτάβαι δ ϛ [… 2 lines lost …] Πεκῦσις ἀρτάβαι ιζ 𐅵 γ ιβ [… 4 lines lost …] [v] [… 4 lines lost …] Πεκῦσις Ἑρμαίου ἀρτάβαι … Κουττῦρις Σαρμάτου…