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Account of wheat with surcharges and freight to Alexandria TM 37911Oxyrhynchus6th century

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A 6th-century account from Oxyrhynchus calculating a quantity of wheat, probably for the state grain shipment (embole), increased by surcharges for the vicesimum, a 22 per cent addition, diapeisma and the corn-measurer. The total is converted into gold solidi and carats, and the costs of local transport and freight to Alexandria are added.

In English machine translation

† Account of Kotrei[…]erker[…]: wheat by the kankellon measure, 317 1/2 1/4 artabas 6 choinikes; vicesimum, 15 1/2 1/3 artabas; total with the vicesimum 333 1/2 1/4 artabas ⟨6 choinikes⟩; at 22 per cent, 73 1/2 artabas; total by the kankellon 407 1/4 artabas; for diapeisma at 7 per cent, 28 1/2 artabas; for the corn-measurer 4 1/4 artabas; total of dirty wheat 440 artabas; at 9 1/4 artabas of dirty wheat to the solidus, less 4 carats on the private standard, makes 49 1/2 1/24 solidi less 190 (carats), net 39 solidi 15 carats on the private standard, full weight; and for transport 30 1/2 1/4 carats; and for freight to Alexandria 109 1/2 1/4 carats; […] 45 solidi 11 1/2 carats full weight on the private standard, at 10 1/2 1/4 carats per artaba by the kankellon, private standard, full weight; and on account of freight to Alexandria for 317 1/2 1/4 artabas 6 choinikes, vicesimum 15 1/2 1/3, total with the vicesimum 333 1/2 1/4 artabas 6 choinikes, […] 33 1/2 1/4 carats, 106 1/2 carats.

The kankellon was a standard measure; the vicesimum (a 1/20 surcharge) and diapeisma (an allowance for loss or testing) are technical grain-tax terms. The figures do not all reconcile exactly, and the name of the account holder is damaged.

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 Corn (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 — APIS (Advanced Papyrological Information System) — papyri · uninventoried · 6th century · Oxyrhynchus

Account, probably for embole. The original item of corn is increased by a vicensimum besides amounts of 22 per cent. for an unnamed purpose, 7 per cent. for diapeisma, and a small extra for the corn-measurer. The total so obtained is equated to money, and cost of (local) transpor…

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

† λόγος Κοτρει…ερκερ[…]…[…]……… σίτου καγκέλλῳ ἀρτάβαι τιζ 𐅵 δ χοίνικες ϛ, βικησίμου ἀρτάβαι ιε 𐅵 γ, γίνονται σὺν τῷ βικησίμῳ ἀρτάβαι τλγ 𐅵 δ χοίνικες ϛ, ἐξ ἑκατοστῶν κβ ἀρτάβαι ογ 𐅵, γίνονται καγκέλλῳ ἀρτάβαι υζ δ, διαπείσματος ἀπὸ ἑκατοστῶν ζ ἀρτάβαι κη 𐅵, σιτομέτρου ἀρτάβαι δ δ…