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Register of wheat dues by acreage TM 28312unbekanntII

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Fragment of a register listing plots of land in arouras with the corresponding amounts of wheat in artabas, probably grain dues. It dates to the 2nd century AD.

In English machine translation

[1] […] 17 arouras, 21 artabas of wheat 5 arouras, 6 1/8 (?) artabas of wheat 10 arouras, 22 1/6 artabas of wheat 17 arouras, 22 1/2 1/12 artabas of wheat 39 arouras, 46 1/2 artabas of wheat 6 arouras, 9 1/6 artabas of wheat 4 arouras, 4 1/2 1/3 1/12 artabas of wheat 6 arouras, 7 1/2 artabas of wheat 115 1/2 arouras, 142 artabas of wheat 9 1/2 arouras, 22 artabas of wheat 17 arouras, 22 1/2 artabas of wheat 52 1/2 arouras, 105 artabas of wheat […] [2] […]

The aroura is an Egyptian land measure (about 0.68 acre) and the artaba a dry measure for grain. The fractions in the second line are written ambiguously and their reading 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 Register of Corn Dues). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.

DDbDP-text Full record →

p.aberd.161

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · II

[1] […]της ἄρουραι ιζ πυροῦ ἀρτάβαι κα ἄρουραι ε πυροῦ ἀρτάβαι ϛ η ἄρουραι ι πυροῦ ἀρτάβαι κβ ϛ ἄρουραι ιζ πυροῦ ἀρτάβαι κβ 𐅵 ιβ ἄρουραι λθ πυροῦ ἀρτάβαι μϛ 𐅵 ἄρουραι ϛ πυροῦ ἀρτάβαι θ ϛ ἄρουραι δ πυροῦ ἀρτάβαι δ 𐅵 γ ιβ ἄρουραι ϛ πυροῦ ἀρτάβαι ζ 𐅵 ἄρουραι ριε 𐅵 πυροῦ ἀρτάβαι ρμβ …