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Inventory of beams and equipment in an oil-press, bakery and camel stable TM 33521unbekanntspätes IV - V

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An inventory of timber and equipment in a building complex: roof beams counted room by room, together with installations of an oil-press, a bakery with its mill, and a camel stable with watering troughs. It dates to the late 4th or 5th century AD.

In English machine translation

[recto] Northern parts: 7 1/2 beams. Equipment (?) of the stone: 1. Southern parts of the same: 16 beams and 2 half-beams new […] 1/2 […] Of beam: 1 crossbeam (?), 2 leaves (of a door) of the oil-press. Roller: 1, mortar of stone. Small stone; in the camel stable 2 watering troughs. Another place, western part of the place: 3 beams. Of the bakery: mill together with the roller, another roller, 1 kneading trough (?), 1 watering trough, 1 stone for cleaning (grain), 4 columns, 20 beams of the bakery, 4 crossbeams (?). [verso] Another 1 watering trough. Small place of the bakery: 7 beams. Of the same bakery: 11 beams, 1 old door. Another place in the camel stable: 10 beams.

Several technical terms (sinorganon, dorodokion, pila) are rare and their exact meaning is uncertain. The 'beams' are probably roofing timbers counted for each part of the building.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Inventory). 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 · spätes IV - V

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