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Account of the price of wheat sold, with freight deduction TM 34822unbekanntV - VI

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A short account calculating the price of wheat sold, at a rate of 11 artabas per solidus less some carats, for 100 artabas, with a deduction for freight costs. It dates to the 5th or 6th century AD in Byzantine Egypt.

In English machine translation

† Account of the price of wheat sold: from the account of the dry (measure?) 9 (?), at 11 artabas per 1 solidus less 6 (carats), makes for 100 artabas 9 solidi less 53 1/2 1/9 (carats), and for freight of the 100 artabas 15 carats, for 9 1/6 artabas; total 109 1/6 artabas, so that it is […] for 100 artabas 9 solidi less 53 1/2 (carats), that is 162 1/2 carats, of which for freight 15 carats, remainder 147 1/2 carats.

Amounts are in gold solidi and carats (24 carats to the solidus); the arithmetic of the text is not fully consistent. The meaning of 'the dry' (xeron), probably a dry measure or dry goods account, 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 Abrechnung über Weizen). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.

DDbDP-text Full record →

cpr.8.58

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · V - VI

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