Two Accounts of Wheat
Two lists of payments in wheat by various persons, for an uncertain purpose; it is not certain that the two are connected
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 37340
List of wheat payments made through various persons TM 37340UnknownVIth/VIIth century A.D.
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A fragment of an account listing payments of wheat in artabas made through various named individuals, among them a priest. It dates to the late 7th century AD; its place of origin is unknown.
In English machine translation
[recto]
[…]
Through Horion son of Daueit, 6 1/48 artabas (?)
Through Apollos son of Victor, 3 1/2 1/48 artabas
Through Victor son of Postumus, 1 1/2 1/12 artabas
Through Horion son of Mathaios son of Menas, through Ammon, 6 1/48 artabas (?)
Through Pisatos son of Marcus, 3 1/2 1/48 artabas
Through Ta…rios son of Iosos, 1/2 1/3 1/12 artaba
Through Apollos son of Menas …en, priest, 1/2 artaba
Through Daniel son of Xa(…), 1/2 artaba
Through S…nkios son of Shenoute, 1/2 artaba
[…]
The fractional figures (written as numerals such as 'μη' = 1/48 and 'ιβ' = 1/12) are interpreted as fractions of an artaba; the reading of the whole numbers with these fractions is uncertain. One record dates the text to the 6th/7th century, another calls it a land list possibly for tax purposes.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Landliste, wohl für Steuerzwecke). 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.15.747
p.mich.15.747lin1_10
[r] [… ? lines lost …] διὰ Ὡρίων Δαυεῖτ ἀρτάβαι ϛ μη διὰ Ἀπολλῶτος Βίκτορος ἀρτάβαι γ 𐅵 μη διὰ Βίκτορος Ποστόμου ἀρτάβη α 𐅵 ιβ διὰ Ὡρίων Μαθαίου Μηνᾶ διὰ Ἄμμωνος ἀρτάβαι ϛ μη διὰ Πισάτου Μάρκου ἀρτάβαι γ 𐅵 μη διὰ Τα…ρίου Ἰόσου ἀρτάβης 𐅵 γ ιβ διὰ Ἀπολλῶτος Μηνᾶ …εν πρεσβυτέρου ἀρτ…