List of Payments of Wheat
List of payments of wheat made by the members of at least three pittakia (agricultural firms)
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 35458
List of grain and wheat payments by members of pittakia TM 35458Probably Herakleopolite nome, Egypt(Late) Vth century A.D.
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An account listing payments of grain and wheat in artabas by named individuals, grouped into pittakia (groups of payers), some paying through deacons and some on behalf of a 'small estate'. It dates to the 5th century AD and probably comes from the Herakleopolite nome.
In English machine translation
[recto, column 1]
[…] ⟦indiction⟧ 1
[…] grain, artabas […]
grain, artabas ⟦2 1/2 1/8⟧ ⟦wheat, 1/2 1/48 artaba⟧
grain, 46 1/4 artabas; wheat, 4 2/3 artabas
grain, 11 1/2 artabas; another 1/2 artaba; wheat, 1 1/4 artabas
[…] son of Eleias, grain, 1 2/3 artabas […] wheat, 4 1/2 artabas
[…] grain, 10 1/2 artabas; wheat, 3 1/24 artabas
[…] son of Beletous, through Onnophris the deacon, grain, 2 artabas; wheat, 3 artabas
Ammonios son of Karis, grain, 2/3 artaba
[…] son of Auneion, grain, 6 1/24 artabas
Papnouthis son of Potammon, grain, 6 artabas; wheat, 8 artabas
[…] through Paesis the deacon, grain, 36 1/2 1/24 artabas; wheat, 14 1/2 artabas
Papnouthis his brother, grain, 10 1/48 artabas
[…] son of Beletous, grain, 1 1/12 artabas; wheat, 2 1/2 artabas
[…]tnechei, grain, 10 1/2 1/8 artabas; wheat, 1/2 1/8 artaba
Ioannes son of Pediophylax (?), grain, 4 1/3 artabas; wheat, 5 1/48 artabas
Apa Sirios son of Ioannes, grain, 2 1/2 artabas; wheat, 10 1/12 artabas
[…]es son of Pounleket, grain, 21 artabas; wheat, 7 ⟦1/12⟧ artabas
[recto, column 2]
Pittakion of Paesis […]
the same […]
Abraham son of Pt[…]
Palenios […]
Papnouthis […]
Herakleides […]
Aunes son of Souris […]
Apollos son of Si[…]
Palitis son of Pat[…]
Litis son of Chemeneus […]
Phoibammon […]
Total […]
Pittakion of Apollos […]
the same […]
Onnophris […]
Phoibammon […]
Anouthis […]
Onnophris […]
Abraham son of Phoibammon […]
Eleias son of Herakleides […]
[verso]
☧ Transfer of pulses of the threshing floor, 14th (indiction?), as follows:
Pittakion of Paesis son of Paulos, grain, artabas […]
the same, grain, 32 artabas […]
⟦and for the small estate, grain, 14 artabas⟧
Ioulios son of Pis, grain, 39 artabas […]
⟦Phoibammon, of the great (and) small estate, grain, 9 artabas⟧
Pekysis son of Eelios, grain, 2 artabas […]
Abraham son of Breei, grain, ⟦3⟧ artabas […]
⟦Papnouthis son of Beletous, through Onnophris the deacon, grain, artabas⟧
Ammonios son of Karis, grain, artabas […]
⟦Litis son of Auneion, grain, artabas⟧
Papnouthis son of Potammon, grain, artabas […]
Herakleides son of Paesis, through Paesis the deacon, grain, artabas […]
and for the small estate, grain, artabas […]
Papnouthis his brother, grain, artabas […]
and for the small estate, grain, artabas […]
⟦Paesis son of Beletous, of the small estate, grain, artabas⟧
Anoup oustnechei […]oris, grain, artabas […]
Ioannes son of Pediophylax (?), grain, artabas […]
and for the small estate, grain, artabas […]
Apa Sirios son of Ioannes, grain, artabas […]
[…] vineyard and grain dues given […] deacon, Epeiph 10, 9th indiction.
A pittakion here is a group or unit of payers, perhaps an agricultural association, with no exact English equivalent. The verso heading 'metechthesis' (transfer) and the indiction numbers are of uncertain interpretation.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as List of Payments in Wheat). 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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