One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 36491
Receipt for wine from the organon of Ampelos TM 36491Wadi Sarga6thC-8thC
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A short receipt on an ostracon from the monastery at Wadi Sarga recording a delivery of 26 measures of wine from the estate or installation called Ampelos, delivered through Teshne, heir of Paroou, and Horos. It is dated Thoth 16 of a 15th indiction, sometime in the 6th to 8th century AD.
In English machine translation
† Of the water-wheel (?) of Ampelos.
Indiction 15, Thoth 16.
Through Teshne, heir of Paroou.
Of the 5th pressing (?): of wine, 26 pressings (?), twenty-six, through Horos. †
The organon was an irrigation machine (water-wheel) whose name often stood for the farm unit it served; phora ("carrying, load") here probably denotes a wine measure or delivery, and its exact sense is uncertain. The names Teshne and Paroou are written in Coptic letters.
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.355
† ὀργάνου Ἀμπέλου ἰνδικτίονος ιε Θὼθ ιϛ διὰ ⲧⲉϣⲛⲏ κληρονόμου ⲡⲁⲣⲟⲟⲩ ε φορᾶς οἴνου φοραὶ κϛ εἴκοσι ἕξ διὰ Ὥρου †