One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 34276

Account of wheat and barley TM 34276Ain Waqfa (Oasis Magna)2. Hälfte IV

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Fragment of an account on an ostracon recording quantities of wheat and barley in artabas and matia, with personal names such as Pachmounis. It comes from Ain Waqfa in the Great Oasis (Kharga) and dates to the second half of the 4th century AD.

In English machine translation

[…] (Of which) above (?) Pmounsire(?) […] barley 7 artabas, 4 matia […] Pachmounis on behalf of Apis(?) wheat 16 artabas, barley 3 artabas, … matia […] […] 1 artaba […] […]

The artaba is a dry measure for grain; the mation is a smaller unit, a fraction of the artaba. The first line's place or personal name (Pmounsire...) is uncertain.

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.

o.waqfa.71

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 2. Hälfte IV · Ain Waqfa (Oasis Magna)

[… ? lines lost …] ἀφʼ ὧν ἐπάνω Πμουνουσιρε[…] κριθῶν ἀρτάβαι ζ μάτια δ […] Παχμουνις ὑπὲρ Απιδι σίτου ἀρτάβαι ιϛ κριθῶν ἀρτάβαι γ μάτι … […] […]… ἀρτάβη α […] [… ? lines lost …]