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Account of wheat disbursements of the most magnificent Christodora of Kynopolis TM 37915OxyrhynchusEarly 6th century

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An account in wheat headed as receipts and expenditures of the noblewoman Christodora of the Kynopolite district, though it lists only payments: the tax quota of the 1st indiction, an advance payment for the 2nd, freight charges, surcharges and private expenses. The grand total is then divided by three. Written at Oxyrhynchus in the early 6th century AD.

In English machine translation

† Account of receipts and expenditures of the most magnificent Christodora, of the Kynopolites: For the tax quota (kanon) of the 1st indiction, wheat by the kankellon measure, 9,930 artabas; and for the advance payment (proteleia) of the 2nd, wheat by the kankellon measure, 20,248 artabas; and for freight, wheat by the kankellon measure, 90 artabas; total for the kanon and the advance payment of the 2nd indiction, wheat by the kankellon measure, 30,268 artabas; at the rate of 1 percent on the 30,268(?), wheat 353 1/12 artabas; total wheat by the kankellon measure, 30,621 1/2 1/12 artabas. And for private expenditures of the 15th (indiction), wheat by the kankellon measure, 4,217 artabas; at the rate of 1 percent on the artabas, total wheat by the kankellon measure 632 1/2 1/24(?); together, wheat by the kankellon measure, 4,849 1/2 1/24 artabas. Grand total of these, wheat by the kankellon measure, 41,178 artabas; one third, wheat by the kankellon measure, 13,723 1/12 artabas.

The kankellon was a standard measure used for tax grain, and the kanon was the annual tax quota. Several figures and the percentage surcharges do not add up exactly; the reason for dividing the total by three is not stated.

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 Receipts and Expenditure). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.

Account in kind

Papyri.info — APIS (Advanced Papyrological Information System) — papyri · uninventoried · Early 6th century · Oxyrhynchus

Account in kind, headed 'Receipts and expenditure of the most magnificent Christodora of Cynopolis', but in fact limited to disbursements, partly in payment of taxes. The final total is divided by 3, but why this is done is not stated. Obscurities occur in details, besides uncer…

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

† λόγος λημμάτων καὶ ἀναλωμάτων τῆς μεγαλοπρεπεστάτης Χριστοδώρας Κυνωπολειτῶν ὑπὲρ κάνονος α ἰνδικτίονος σίτου καγκέλλῳ ἀρτάβαι Θϡλ, καὶ ὑπὲρ προτελείας β σίτου καγκέλλῳ ἀρτάβαι μυριάδες β σμη , καὶ ὑπὲρ ναύλου σίτου καγκέλλῳ ἀρτάβαι ϙ, γίνονται κάνονος καὶ προτελείας β ἰνδικτίο…