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Account of wheat for the embole from the village of Takona TM 37910Oxyrhynchosspätes VI - VII

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An account of wheat collected at the village of Takona for the state grain shipment (embole) of a 13th indiction year, listing receipts with allowances and the quantities handed over to an official called the osprigites and others. It comes from Oxyrhynchos, late 6th or 7th century AD.

In English machine translation

Account of wheat of the village of Takona for the embole (grain shipment) of the 13th indiction. Receipts of clean wheat: 10,010 artabas, and for their barley-picking: wheat, 925 artabas, and for the majordomo: wheat, 50 artabas, and for the grain-measurer: wheat, 92 artabas. Total receipts of the 13th indiction: unclean wheat by the kankellos measure, 11,077 artabas. Of which were given to the osprigites: unclean wheat, 7,004 artabas, likewise given to the osprigites for the boat: unclean wheat, 1,701 3/4 artabas, likewise given to the osprigites by note of the village scribe of Sephtha: unclean wheat, 142 artabas, and through the stablemen of Takona: unclean wheat, 1,200 artabas, […]

The osprigites was an estate or village official whose exact role is uncertain; 'barley-picking' (krithologia) is an allowance for cleaning the grain of barley. The figures add up: 10,010 + 925 + 50 + 92 = 11,077 artabas.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Account of Embole). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.

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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · spätes VI - VII · Oxyrhynchos

λόγος σίτου κώμης Τακόνα ἐμβολῆς ιγ ἰνδικτίονος. λήμματα σίτου καθαροῦ ἀρτάβαι μυριὰς α καὶ ι , καὶ ὑπὲρ κριθολογίας αὐτῶν σίτου ἀρτάβαι ϡκε, καὶ ὑπὲρ τοῦ μειζοτέρου σίτου ἀρτάβαι ν, καὶ ὑπὲρ τοῦ σιτομέτρου σίτου ἀρτάβαι ϙβ. γίνονται λημμάτων ιγ ἰνδικτίονος σίτου ῥυπαροῦ καγκέλλῳ…