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Account of wheat deliveries by sitologoi of several villages TM 30948Philadelphia (Arsinoites)III

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An account recording deliveries of wheat by the granary officials (sitologoi) of several villages, including Philadelphia and Ptolemais of the Arabs, in the months Epeiph and Mesore of a year 5. It comes from Philadelphia in the Arsinoite nome and dates to the 3rd century AD.

In English machine translation

Of Philadelphia. According to the summary account (?) of year 5 […] Epeiph 26, […] wheat 400 (artabas), Mesore 10, from the sitologoi of […] wheat 200, 15, from the sitologoi of Ptolemais of the Arabs wheat 47, 15, from the sitologoi of Ptolemais of the Arabs wheat 15, 23, from the sitologoi of Philadelphia itself wheat 70, from the sitologoi of Philadelphia itself, to the royal scribe, wheat 80.

Sitologoi were the village officials in charge of the public granaries. The term synairema denotes a summary or consolidated reckoning; quantities are presumably in artabas.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Abrechnung über Ablieferungen von Weizen durch Sitologen mehrerer Dörfer). 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 · III · Philadelphia (Arsinoites)

Φιλαδελφίας κατὰ συναίρεμα ε ἔτους …[…]…ν Ἐπεὶφ κϛ … πυροῦ υ, Μεσορὴ ι σιτολόγων […] πυροῦ σ, ιε σιτολόγων Πτολεμαΐδος Ἀράβων πυροῦ μζ, ιε σιτολόγων Πτολεμαΐδος Ἀράβων πυροῦ ιε, κγ σιτολόγων αὐτῆς Φιλαδελφίας πυροῦ ο, σιτολόγων αὐτῆς Φιλαδελφίας τῷ βασιλικῷ γραμματεῖ πυροῦ π.