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Account of wheat and barley from harvest and rents TM 28869Tebtynis (Arsinoites)II

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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.

p.mil.vogl.4.253

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

κλήρου Ἀς[…] 𐅵 λ…μ[…] ……υλω […] Τεβνάσεως κριθῆς ἀρτάβαι […] γίνεται τῆς ὅλης συνκομιδῆς πυροῦ ἀρτάβαι σοϛ πέμπτον κριθῆς ἀρτάβαι […] παρὰ Μεσοῆρις Ἁρφαῆσις κριθῆς ἀρτάβαι μδ καὶ τῶν γεωργουμένων ὁμοίως […] Ἱερᾶς μέτρῳ θησαυροῦ […] Σαμαρίας ὁμοίως […] Ἰβιῶνος Ἀκκατίωνος […] καὶ Ἀ…