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Account of crops and dues from a landholding TM 3237Ghoran (Arsinoites)244 - 243 v.Chr.

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A fragmentary account of grain and green crops from a landholding of an unknown person, recording monthly quantities of wheat, barley and arakos, seed, payments due and a deduction for unflooded land. It comes from Ghoran in the Arsinoite nome and dates to 244-243 BC.

In English machine translation

[…] […] […] of arakos 21 […] […] total 121 […] […] of wheat […] […] 18 and […] 23 3/4 Pachon […] 62 1/3 […], seed wheat 100, total of wheat 690 1/2 Pauni […] of wheat […] total 30 Epeiph 11, green crops […] 5 Mesore 15, […] [total] of wheat 74 1/3, of barley […] which (in wheat) 3, total 76 1/3 and from the green crops there has fallen due: year 2, 6 (?), Choiak 22 1/2 (obol 3), Tybi 9, total 31 1/2, which in wheat 9, 34 obols 4 1/2 […] and deduction for the unflooded land: 7 3/4 arouras at […] 4, 12, total 87 (?) ⟦798 3/4⟧ […] […] 7 1/2 1/3 1/2 1/4 1 1/3 1/4 Administration (dioikesis) of green crops: […] of arakos 1 1/2 1/8, total 2 […] 1/4, of which […] 1/3 (wheat) 2 1/2 1/3, remainder of arakos 8 […] 2 at […] 18 3/4 at 4 1/2, 84 1/2 […] 1/2 at (wheat) 10 artabas 5, […] 5, total 19 1/2 […] Towards this there has fallen due: year 2, Choiak 22 1/2; Tybi 9 and he measures Pachon 21, Pauni, of wheat […] […] 5 which of wheat […] total […] 40 at […] […] […] 7 1/2 […] 521 […]

Arakos is a leguminous fodder crop (a vetch); 'green crops' (chlora) are fodder or vegetable crops paid in kind. Many figures are damaged and the fraction readings are uncertain.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Tenure d’un inconnu). 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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