One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 36329
Account of wine jars drawn from numbered vats TM 36329Wadi Sarga6thC-8thC
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A short ostracon account listing jars (knidia) of wine, large and small, drawn from four numbered vats, with a grand total of 74. It comes from the monastic settlement at Wadi Sarga and dates to the 6th to 8th century AD.
In English machine translation
† Account of wine
Large knidia from vat 4: 3
Large knidia from vat 3: 2
From vat 2: 7
Small knidia from vat 1: […]
Small and large, total: 74
A knidion was a wine jar type named after Knidos, used as a standard measure; the figures as preserved do not add up to the stated total of 74, so the line for vat 1 appears to lack its number.
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.
o.sarga.126
† γνῶσις οἴνου μεγάλα κνίδια ἀπὸ κάδου δ γ μεγάλα κνίδια ἀπὸ κάδου γ β ἀπὸ κάδου β ζ μικρὰ κνίδια ἀπὸ κάδου α μικρὰ καὶ μεγάλα κεφαλαίου οδ