Account of Wine
Copy of an account of wine
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 37335
Copy of an account of wine from the northern estate TM 37335UnknownVIth century A.D. (June 15)
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A copy of an account of wine from a northern estate, dated Pauni 21 of a 12th indiction. It records how 61 jars (keramia) of wine were distributed to the steward, soldiers, and allowances for transport and breakage, and how 100 smaller vessels (knidia) were accounted for.
In English machine translation
Copy for the northern estate, Pauni 21, indiction 12.
† Account of the 100 knidia and 61 keramia of wine, as follows:
to the steward, 54 keramia of wine
for transport charges, 2 keramia of wine
for breakage, 3 keramia of wine
to the soldiers, 2 keramia of wine
total, 61 keramia of wine.
As follows:
96 small vessels of wine
for transport charges, 2 vessels
for breakage, 2 vessels
total, 100 vessels of wine.
Keramion and knidion are wine jar measures of different sizes; the knidia are later called 'small vessels'. The allowance 'for breakage' (klasma) covers wine lost in broken jars.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Copy of an Account of Wine). 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.mich.15.741
ἀντίγραφον ὑπὲρ τοῦ βορινοῦ κτήματος Παῦνι κα ἰνδικτίονος ιβ. † λόγος τῶν οἴνου κνιδίων ρ καὶ κεραμίων ξα οὕτως· εἰς τὸν οἰκονόμον οἴνου κεράμια νδ ὑπὲρ φορέτρου οἴνου κεράμια β ὑπὲρ κλάσματος οἴνου κεράμια γ τοῖς στρατιώταις οἴνου κεράμια β γίνεται οἴνου κεράμια ξα. οὕτως· οἴνου…