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A fragmentary account listing small quantities of barley and wheat, mostly one or two artabas, assigned to named individuals, among them an assistant named Herakleios, Alexandra and Karpos the Libyan. Several figures were struck out and corrected, showing the account was audited. It dates to the 3rd century AD; its provenance is unknown.
Quantities are presumably in artabas, though the unit is not written. Some amounts were deleted and altered by a second hand, and entries carry check marks.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Account of Barley and Wheat). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
An account of barley and wheat. Although the amounts listed in the account are small, being with the exception of l. 5 either of one or of two artabai, there is evidence of considerable auditing in the fact that entries are carefully checked at the end and perhaps also at the be…
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