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Accounts of grain deliveries to a bakery and for soldiers TM 34390Kysis (Oasis Magna)IV - Anfang V

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Two short accounts on an ostracon recording deliveries of grain, mostly from public stocks, made to Isokrates and to the writer's brother Chrestos for a bakery, for soldiers, for tax collection and for the writer himself. It comes from Kysis in the Great Oasis and dates to the 4th or early 5th century AD.

In English machine translation

[1] To Isokrates: for the bakery, of public (grain), 1 artaba likewise, of public (grain), 7 matia likewise, to me, 3 matia further, likewise, on behalf of soldiers, by the iron measure, 8 artabas. likewise, to me, of public (grain), 1 artaba 2 matia [2] To my brother Chrestos: for the bakery, of public (grain), 2 artabas to me, of public (grain), 1 artaba likewise, for the bakery, of public (grain), 2 artabas likewise, to me, of public (grain), 6 matia for tax collection, of public (grain), 2 artabas likewise, 1 artaba 4 matia of public (grain), 6 artabas

The mation is a small dry measure, a fraction of an artaba; the 'iron measure' was an official standard measure. 'Public' renders the abbreviated demosiou, probably public grain.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Comptes de versements en nature à la boulangerie militaire). 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 · IV - Anfang V · Kysis (Oasis Magna)

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