List [V-VI AD]
List relating to axles (central component of the water-wheel) received by the estate, whether by purchase or other obligation
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 35729
List of axles for water-wheels supplied from hamlets TM 35729Oxyrhynchites400 CE – 599 CE
The same ancient text or artifact as recorded by 4 records across 3 independent projects, recognised as one entity by its TM-Text identifier. View on Trismegistos →
A fragmentary list of axles for water-wheels, recording the people (an agent, deacons, a monk, a farmer) from various hamlets and villages who supplied them, apparently to an estate. It dates to the 5th or 6th century AD and comes from the Oxyrhynchite nome.
In English machine translation
[recto]
[…] axle (?) […]
of Leontios, agent […]
of Paulos, deacon, from the hamlet Ph[…]
for the water-wheel called […]
Herakles, monk, from the same […]
of Matrinos, one axle
of Anoutios, deacon, from the hamlet […]
Paesis, farmer, from the hamlet K[…]
[…] from the village […]
[…] from the hamlet […]
[…] axle […]
[verso]
[…] list of axles […]
[…]
The axle was the central component of the water-wheel (mechane), the irrigation machine on which estates depended. The verso heading is a 'breve' (list) of axles.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as List Relating to Axles). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
p.col.11.297
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