One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 32385

Fragments of an account of wheat and barley TM 32385unbekanntIV

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Two small fragments of a 4th-century AD account or official document, found among the papyri from Nag Hammadi, mentioning wheat and barley and a very large quantity of artabas counted in tens of thousands. Almost nothing else survives.

In English machine translation

[Fragment A] [recto] […] … […] […] … […] […] … […] [verso] [… lines lost …] [Fragment B] [recto] […] of wheat … […] […] … […] […] artabas, tens of thousands … 46 … […] […] … of barley […] [verso] … …

The papyrus is one of those recovered from the cartonnage of the Nag Hammadi codex bindings. The quantity in fragment B is expressed in myriads (units of 10,000) of artabas, but the exact figure cannot be recovered.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below. It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.

p.nag.hamm.19

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · IV

[FrA] [r] […] …η…[…][…] […]…[…] […]…φμ[…] [v] [… ? lines lost …] [FrB] [r] […] σίτου …[…] […] … […] […] ἀρταβῶν μυριάδες …μϛ εχ…[…] […]… κριθῆς […] [v] … α …