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End of an account of crops, sales and dyke tax TM 3238Ghoran (Arsinoites)

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The end of an agricultural account from Ghoran in the Arsinoite nome, recording quantities of wheat, payments in year 4 by Noumenios for Glaukios for green crops, the sale of crops such as arakos, flax, cucumber and onion converted into wheat values, and dyke tax payments.

In English machine translation

[column 1] 600 […] […] 39 1/2 1/4 (total) 1063 1/4 […] 405 1/2 1/4 1/8 artabas, total 928 1/8. Remainder 28 1/8, of which there has been paid in year 4, Hathyr, by Noumenios on behalf of Glaukios, for the price of green crops 58 drachmas 4 obols, exchange 6 1/2 obols, total 64 drachmas 4 1/2 obols, which (equal) 64 1/2 1/4 of wheat, for 36 1/2 1/8. [Administration of green crops.] Arakos 20 1/2 1/4 1/8, flax 11 1/2 1/4, cucumber 3 1/2 1/4 1/16, onion 8 1/2 1/8, […] 42 1/16, of which […] 2 1/4; remainder arakos 18 1/2 1/8, flax 11 1/2 1/4, cucumber 3 1/2 1/4 1/16, [onion 8 1/2 1/8, 42 1/16; of whi]ch sale: arakos 14 at 4 drachmas 3 obols, 63 […] flax 11 1/2 1/4 at 16 of wheat, 188; cucumber 3 1/2 1/4 1/16 at 16, 61 artabas, [… 1 1/2 1/8 at] 16 of wheat, 26; grain 4 at 22 of wheat, 88; total 363 […] […] 19 1/2, barley 40, wheat […] barley 1 1/4 […] total wheat 224 1/2 […], barley […]5 1/2, which (equal) 25 1/2 1/4 of wheat, total 2[…]9 1/2 […] […] [column 2] Dyke tax […] 4 1/2 1/4, of which […] remainder 110 drachmas, 27 drachmas 3 1/2 obols […], 23 drachmas 4 1/2 obols […] and for the dyke works 28 1/2 […] remainder in bronze […] Year 4, Phamenoth, in bronze 4 1/2 obols, exchange […] […] […] 8 […] 26 1/2 […] 8 […] total […]9 1/8

Arakos is a leguminous fodder crop (a vetch or chickling pea); "green crops" (chlora) were crops harvested green. Many figures are damaged and the reading of several numbers is uncertain.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Fin d’un compte). 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 · Ghoran (Arsinoites)

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