One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 33769

Account of building materials and tools by village TM 33769ArsinoitesIV

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Fragmentary account listing building materials and tools, such as unbaked and baked bricks, doors, ropes, timber, hoes and shovels, arranged by village in the Arsinoite nome. It dates to the 4th century AD.

In English machine translation

[Fragment A] [Column 1] […] earthenware buckets (?) […] 156 rush ox-yokes (?) club (?) 1 kilns of lime 2 pannier of chaff 1/2 […] 1 Village of Kerkesoucha and Schoinia (?) unbaked brick 3400 baked brick 3874 […] doors 2 […] elbow-pieces […] 7 ropes […] […] [Column 2] […] club (?) […] kilns of lime […] pannier of chaff 1 […] […] palm-fibre (?) 2 1/2 […] Village of Dikaiou unbaked brick 840 […] baked […] doors 30, 100 […] elbow-pieces […] ropes, cubits […] bolts and staves […] of sycamore […] hoes […] shovels […] […] […] [wood] […] […] [Fragment B] [Column 1] […] […] of the city (?) unbaked brick 4000 baked brick 1500 doors 5 elbow-pieces 20 ropes of fine cord, 405 cubits bolts and staves sycamore wood 100 hoes 50 shovels 50 […] 50 […] [Column 2] […] of Theoxenis […] unbaked brick 2000 baked brick […] doors […] elbow-pieces […] small ropes of fine cord […] cubits […] bolts and staves […] sycamore […] [hoes] […] [shovels] […] […] […]

Several terms (kados-type buckets, zeuktrai, skytalos, speiles, olenia) are rare and their exact meaning uncertain; the repeated entry speiles is left untranslated. Numerals in Greek letters with thousand-marks have been rendered as figures.

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

bgu.13.2361

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

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