One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 36327
Account of wine deliveries TM 36327Wadi Sarga6thC-8thC
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A fragmentary account recording deliveries of wine, measured in phorai and knidia, from various persons or places, including a steward Papnouthios and a priest (papa) Apollo. It comes from the monastic site of Wadi Sarga and dates to the 6th-8th century AD.
In English machine translation
[… ? lines lost …]
[…] […]eot: wine, knidia […]
[…]naris: wine, 3 phorai and k[nidia] […]
[…] [Am]pelos (?): wine, 40 phorai and kn[idia] […]
[…]che Sbeht: wine, 60 phorai and knid[ia] […]
[…] on account of an assessment (?), Papnouthios the steward: phor[ai] […]
[…]eis, papa Apollo: likewise, wine, phor[ai] […]
[…] […] Phoibammon and Stephanos: wine, 2 phorai […]
Phora (literally a 'load' or delivery) and knidion (a jar type named after Knidos) are wine measures with no exact English equivalent. The word ex epigraphes may refer to a tax assessment or levy.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Abrechnungen über Weinlieferungen). 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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