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Account of wheat payments to workers and servants TM 35449unbekanntV

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Fragment of an account listing payments of wheat in artabas to various workers and individuals, including a potter, a guard, wool-workers' headman, farmers, shepherds and servants of a lord Megas. It dates to the 5th century AD.

In English machine translation

[…] To Chileus (?) […] To the potter, 10 artabas of wheat To the guard, 15 artabas of wheat To the pothimarioi (?), 6 artabas of wheat To Neilos, bringer (?), 2 artabas of wheat To the headman of the wool-workers, 2 artabas of wheat To the farmers for […], 10 artabas of wheat To the servants of the lord Megas, 4 artabas of wheat To Pabik and Mesia, 4 artabas of wheat To the shepherds, 4 artabas of wheat To Dichiel, 2 artabas of wheat […] 2 artabas of wheat […]

The term pothimarioi is obscure, perhaps workers connected with water supply; the phrase 'for αυα' after the farmers is unexplained.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Account of Corn). 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 →

p.mert.1.42

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

[… ? lines lost …] τῷ Χιλεῖ …[…] τῷ κεραμεῖ σίτου ἀρτάβαι ι τῷ τηρητῇ σίτου ἀρτάβαι ιε τῷ ποθιμαρίοις σίτου ἀρτάβαι ϛ τῷ Νείλῳ φέροντι σίτου ἀρτάβαι β τῷ κεφαλαιωτῇ λανατουργῶν σίτου ἀρτάβαι β τοῖς γεωργοῖς ὑπὲρ αυα σίτου ἀρτάβαι ι τοῖς παιδαρίοις τοῦ κυρίου Μεγάλου σίτου ἀρτάβαι…