One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 36359
Receipt for 40 large jars of wine from the village of Plebiou TM 36359Wadi Sarga6thC-8thC
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A short receipt on an ostracon recording the delivery of 40 large jars of wine, first load, from the village of Plebiou, brought by Mathias and Pkou and written by Kollouthos on Hathyr 6. It comes from the monastic settlement of Wadi Sarga, AD 6th-8th century.
In English machine translation
Hathyr 6, of the village of Plebiou,
through Mathias and Pkou,
of Thallou (?), first load(s) of wine, large (jars)
40, only forty.
I, Kollouthos, wrote.
The abbreviation read as Thallou is uncertain; it may be a place or person associated with the delivery. 'Megala' refers to a large standard wine-jar measure.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Quittung für Wein). 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.212
Ἁθὺρ ϛ κώμης Πλεβιωου διὰ Μαθίας καὶ Πκου Θαλλοῦ πρώτης φορᾶς οἴνου μεγάλα μ μόνα τεσσεράκοντα Κολλοῦθος ἔγραψα