Account
Account of thin wine excluded from the store-house of a wine dealer and distributed among various cellars.
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Account of vinegar excluded from a wine-steward's store and distributed to cellars TM 37926Oxyrhynchus6th century
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An account from a large estate at Oxyrhynchus recording the vinegar or sour wine rejected from the store of the wine-steward Phib in the month of Mesore of a 12th indiction. It lists the amounts received from a village and several estates, 8,143 double jars in all, and how they were distributed among various cellars, including those of a goose-keeper, a storehouse, the landowner's house and a guesthouse.
In English machine translation
† Statement of vinegar (sour wine) shut out from the store of Phib, wine-steward, in the month of Mesore, 12th indiction, as follows:
from the village of Adaiou, of vinegar 1,500 double jars,
from the estate of Leon, of vinegar 2,243 double jars,
from the estate of Neos, of vinegar 1,700 double jars,
from the estate of Pera, of vinegar 250 double jars,
from the estate of Parthenias, of vinegar 150 double jars,
from the estate of Orthonios, of vinegar 100 double jars,
from the estates of Leonides and Limenias, of vinegar 2,200 double jars,
total, of vinegar 8,143 double jars, as follows:
into the 2 cellars of the goose-keeper, of vinegar 4,200 double jars,
into the other cellar of the same goose-keeper, of vinegar 59 double potaria, likewise of vinegar 71 double jars, total of vinegar 130 double jars,
into the 2 cellars of the storehouse (apostasis), of vinegar 1,500 double jars,
into the other cellar of the same storehouse, 113 double potaria,
into the cellar at the entrance of the landowner's house, 1,200 double jars,
into the cellar of the guesthouse, of vinegar 1,000 double jars,
total of the above, including 172 double potaria, of vinegar 8,143 double jars.
Oxos means sour or poor-quality wine, here apparently wine turned to vinegar and so excluded from the regular wine stock. The 'diplon' was a standard double jar measure; 'potaria' were smaller vessels counted as double jars.
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 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.oxy.16.2044
† γνῶσις ὄξους ἀποκλεισθέντος ἐκ τῆς ὑποδοχῆς Φὶβ οἰνοχειριστοῦ ἐπὶ μηνὸς Μεσορὴ ἰνδικτίονος ιβ, οὕτως· ἐκ τῆς κώμης Ἀδαίου ὄξους διπλᾶ Αφ, ἐκ τοῦ κτήματος Λέοντος ὄξους διπλᾶ Βσμγ, ἐκ τοῦ κτήματος Νέου ὄξους διπλᾶ Αψ, ἐκ τοῦ κτήματος Πέρα ὄξους διπλᾶ σν, ἐκ τοῦ κτήματος Παρθενιά…