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Agreement to deliver must to the landowner's share TM 34256Ain Waqfa (Oasis Magna)2. Hälfte IV

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A short ostracon recording an agreement by a man named Poule to deliver 4 chreteis (a local measure) of grape must to the landowner's share, in an 11th indiction year. It is signed by Makarios and comes from Ain Waqfa in the Great Oasis, second half of the 4th century AD.

In English machine translation

11th indiction. Poule agreed to give to the landowner's share, for the inner release (?), 4 chreteis of must, total 4 chr(eteis). I, Makarios, have signed.

The chrêtis is a local liquid measure attested in the Kharga Oasis. The phrase rendered 'inner release' (eso apheseos) is obscure and probably refers to a stage or place in the wine-pressing.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Conventions). 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 · 2. Hälfte IV · Ain Waqfa (Oasis Magna)

ια ἰνδικτίωνος. συνεφώνησε Πουλη δοῦναι εἰς τὸ γεουχικὸν μέρος ὑπὲρ ἔσω ἀφέσεως γλεύκους χρητεις τέσσαρας γίνονται χρητεις δ. σεσημείωμαι ἐγὼ Μακάριος.