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Account of barley issued for fodder, brewing and sowing TM 28873Tebtynis (Arsinoites)2. Hälfte II

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Fragment of an account of grain, probably barley, recording issues as fodder for donkeys, horses and kids, for beer and malt, for sowing on named plots, for a birthday celebration, and a large sale to a beer-seller. It comes from Tebtynis in the Fayum and dates to the second half of the 2nd century AD.

In English machine translation

[… lines lost …] […] … […] […] to the donkeys […] of […]sion […] Phaophi 9 […] 1 1/3 1/15 artabas […] … to the horses and riding-donkeys […] up to Choiak … 2 1/2 1/20 artabas […] to the leatherworker […] 1/10 artaba […] up to the 6th to the horses and riding-donkeys and kids 1 1/10 artabas […] … up to the 11th to the same, … 1/15 artabas for beer 1 artaba for the plot of Phansetis, by the 6-choinix measure, 3 1/2 artabas for the plot of Pse…emis, by the 6-choinix measure, 1/2 artaba for the plot of Psarbas, by the 4-choinix measure, 2 artabas for the plot of […]oneus, by the 4-choinix measure, 2 1/2 artabas for the birthday celebration of Ptollarion 1 1/5 artabas to Ophellios […] 1 artaba 24th, to Nikarios for beer 1 1/3 1/15 artabas […] for malt 1/2 artaba […] for malt likewise 1 artaba for malt likewise 5 1/10 artabas for the plot of Pyrrhos, by the 6-choinix measure, 1/4 artaba sale of barley to the beer-seller at […] 138 artabas … Pharmouthi 20, for malt through Eudaimon 1 artaba to the […] from Pharmouthi 8 to Pachon 12, for 34 days, 4 1/5 1/20 artabas […] 5 1/10 artabas […] 1 artaba […] 1 artaba […] … 1 artaba […] 5 1/10 artabas […] … artabas […] [… lines lost …]

Grain for the plots (kleroi) is measured by 6-choinix or 4-choinix units, presumably sowing rates. 'Bynis' is malt for brewing beer (zytos).

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Rendiconto di derrate). 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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p.mil.vogl.6.278

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 2. Hälfte II · Tebtynis (Arsinoites)

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