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Account of grain deliveries to the metropolis and village granaries TM 28180ThebenII

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Fragmentary account of grain payments listing individual taxpayers and the amounts in artabas measured into the granary of the metropolis and the village granary on various dates in Pauni, Epeiph, Mesore and Thoth. It comes from Thebes in the 2nd century AD.

In English machine translation

[column i] [… 15 lines lost …] […] … 77 2/3 artabas […] …, total 83 1/3 artabas [column ii] [… lines lost …] Measured into the granary of the metropolis, Pauni 15, 1/3 1/8 artaba; another, … 2 (?); another, 15th, through […] another, Mesore 24, 1/6 1/24 artaba; total 4 1/2 1/3 artabas. Petechespochrates son of Phatres, grandson of Psen[…] measured into the granary of the metropolis, Pauni 15, 1 1/2 2/3 artabas; another, 13th, 1/3 artaba; total [2 1/2 artabas] […] […] son of Imouthes, grandson of Spotous, 16 1/2 1/3 artabas; another […] […] … 1/3 1/24 artaba; total 17 1/2 2/3 artabas. Measured into the granary of the metropolis, Pauni 12, 6 1/2 artabas; another, into the granary of the villages, Pauni 8, … […] another, 15th, 1/3 1/12 artaba; another, 23rd, … 1/12 artaba; another, 14th, 5 1/2 artabas; another, Epeiph 20, […] artabas 1/3 artaba; another, Mesore 21, 1/24 artaba. Petearoueris the younger, son of Amenothes […] measured into the granary of the metropolis, Pauni 11, 1 1/3 artabas; another, 1/6 artaba; total 1 1/2 artabas. Petepsais son of Pikos […] 7 1/2; another, through Pro… […] measured into the granary of the metropolis, Mesore 21, through Porieuthes, likewise 1/4 artaba; another, 28th, through Le[…] Epeiph 30, 1/4 artaba. Esoueris son of Panas […] measured into the granary of the metropolis, Pauni 13, 5 1/2 2/3 artabas; another, into the granary of the villages, 30th, 1/3 1/24 artaba […] Kaio (?) son of Porieuthes also called Lolous, Pe… […] apart from the sons of Porieuthes and of Tanamis daughter of Pikos […] measured into the granary of the villages, Pauni 30, through Theoueris, 1/2 2/3 artaba; another, Thoth […] […] total 1 1/6 artabas.

Fractions are written in the Greek unit-fraction system (e.g. 1/2 1/3). The 'granary of the villages' was a separate state granary from that of the metropolis (Diospolis).

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below. 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 · II · Theben

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