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Ostracon account recording issues of barley, hay, bread rations, wine and oil, apparently for stable personnel, over periods in Phaophi and Choiak. A sum of 1800 silver talents also appears. It comes from Ain Waqfa in the Great Oasis, second half of the 4th century AD.
The matia (sing. mation) is a small dry measure, a fraction of an artaba; the chrei is presumably a local wine measure. 'Stable-hands' renders stablitai, staff attached to the stables.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Comptes). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
[r] διὰ τῶν ……[…] ἀπὸ Φαῶφι ε ἄχρι[…] κριθῶν τοπικαὶ ἀρτάβαι κα χόρτου δέσμαι φα … ὑπηρεσίας τῶν σταβλιτῶν καὶ τοῦ π[…] ἀπὸ Φαο͂φι ια ἄχρι Χοιὰκ …[…] μηνῶν β ψωμία σκ οἴνου χρητεις ι τὸ τρίτον ἐλαίου ξέσται δ 𐅵 τὸ τρίτον ξεσται […] α ἰνδικτίωνος β … τρίτον α …[…] κριθ… ἀρτάβη α μ…
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