An account of grain, wheat and barley in artabas, recording harvest totals and receipts from various plots, farmers and villages in the Arsinoite nome, including rents for a granary at Tebtynis and a threshing floor at Kerkesis. It dates to the 2nd century AD and comes from Tebtynis.
In English machine translation
of the kleros of As[…]
1/2 […]
[…]
of Tebnasis, barley […] artabas
Total of the whole harvest:
wheat 276 1/5 artabas
barley […] artabas
from Mesoeris son of Harphaesis, barley 44 artabas
and of the lands cultivated likewise […]
of Hiera, by the granary measure […]
of Samaria likewise […]
of Ibion, of Akkation […]
and of Akanthon, sons of Pesnaos
from the farmers of the hamlet of Thaisas
from the kleros of […], by the six-choinix measure, wheat 32 artabas
of the great garden, by the measure […], 80 artabas
likewise from Hiera, by the dromos measure, wheat 24 artabas and
likewise from Pisais, by the dromos measure, wheat 7 artabas
for rent of the granary of Tebtynis, wheat 12 artabas
for rent of the threshing floor of Kerkesis, wheat 4 artabas
Several different measures are named (granary measure, six-choinix measure, dromos measure), reflecting the varying local standards used to measure grain. A kleros is an allotment of land originally granted to a settler.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Conto di artabe di cereali). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.