bgu.7.1720
κρέως λίτραι ριζ ξέσται τν λίνου ἄλλοι ξέσται μη στιχ ἄλλοι ξέσται ξδ μερισμοῦ ξέσται ρκη.
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 32972
Account of meat and other quantities TM 32972Philadelphia (Arsinoites)IV - V
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A short account listing quantities of meat in pounds and of other items in sextarii, including an amount for an apportionment (merismos). It comes from Philadelphia in the Arsinoite nome and dates to the 4th or 5th century AD.
In English machine translation
Meat: 117 pounds, 350 sextarii
Of linen (?): another 48 sextarii
Stich- (?): another 64 sextarii
Of the apportionment: 128 sextarii.
The abbreviations λίνου and στιχ are unclear in this context, and the sextarius figures may refer to oil or wine measures. Merismos usually denotes an apportioned levy or distribution.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Abrechnung). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.