One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 34657

Account of wheat and barley TM 34657Kysis (Oasis Magna)IV - Anfang V

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Fragmentary ostracon account recording quantities of wheat and barley in artabas and matia, with the name Petechon at the end. It comes from Kysis in the Great (Kharga) Oasis and dates to the 4th or early 5th century AD.

In English machine translation

[...] [...] [...] [...] of wheat by the landowner's measure, 1 artaba, [...] matia [...] of barley, one artaba [...] of wheat, 3 artabas, 5 matia [...] Petechon.

The mation is a small dry measure, a fraction of an artaba. The 'landowner's measure' (geouchikon metron) was a private measure used on estates.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Compte de blé et d’orge). 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)

[… ? lines lost …] […]…[…] […] σίτου γεουχικῷ μέτρῳ ἀρτάβην α μάτια […] […] κριθῆς ἀρτάβην μίαν […]σίτου ἀρτάβας γ μάτια ε […]Πετεχῶν.