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Account of sowings and grain on the holding of the hipparch Machatas TM 3236Ghoran (Arsinoites)244 - 243 v.Chr.

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An agricultural account concerning the land holding (kleros) of the cavalry officer Machatas, recording areas sown with wheat, cucumbers, onions, flax and other crops as reported by Achoapis, followed by dated entries of wheat and barley issued or due from Phamenoth to Mesore. It comes from Ghoran in the Arsinoite nome and dates to 244-243 BC.

In English machine translation

222 1/2 1/8 […] (Holding) of Machatas the hipparch, 112 1/4 1/8 […] Of which Achoapis writes that there have been sown with wheat […] […] with cucumber 3 1/2 1/16, with onion 1 1/2 1/8, with grain(?) […] […] […]os son of Harmiusis […] […] […]nis […] […]nophris […] and the seed given […] of chickling 3 […] which (are) of wheat […] and of the before the [seed]… 7 1/2 […] Phamenoth 30, wheat 109, (for) flax, wheat 50, total 152. Pharmouthi […] […]ion, wheat 6; 8, onion-bearing (land), wheat 24, […] wheat […]3 1/2 1/4 7 1/3; 9, wheat (for) flax 7 1/2, flax-bearing (land), wheat 2 1/2; 10, (for) flax, wheat 1/2 1/3 1/12, rent of grain-land, wheat 14 1/2 1/4 1/4, barley 20, wheat 11, barley 3 1/3, wheat 7, barley 10, (for) flax, wheat 13 (?), (for) cucumber, wheat 12, (for) grain, wheat 2 1/2, (for) flax, wheat ⟦9 1/2⟧ 4, (for) cucumber, wheat […]1, (for) grain, wheat 3 1/2, (for) cucumber, wheat 11 2/3 1/2, barley 4 2/3, […] wheat 3, (for) grain, barley 2 1/3, to the surety of Alexandros, seed for green crops, wheat 20; 7, seed, wheat 106 1/17(?), green crops, wheat 6, (for) grain, wheat 1 1/2, barley 2 1/2, total 2085(?), barley 43. Pachons 2, (for) flax, wheat 5. Epeiph 12, green crops, wheat 2 1 1/3; 9 1/2 1, total 16 1/2; […] green crops, wheat 4 2 1/2; 22, 1 1/4, green crops, wheat 1 1/2 2 1/3 1/2; 8; 26, green crops […] 1/4, total, total […]1 1/4. Mesore 10, flax-bearing (land), wheat 5[…] […] Total of wheat 48[…] […] and […] […] Remainder […]

The figures are partly areas in arouras and partly quantities in artabas; many fractions are damaged and their reading is uncertain. The word ekphorion denotes rent paid in kind on land.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Tenure de l’hipparque Machatas). 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 · 244 - 243 v.Chr. · Ghoran (Arsinoites)

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