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Greek-Coptic account of barley, oil and geese TM 38559ElephantineVI

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A short Greek and Coptic account listing quantities of barley, oil and other goods, with a note on the verso concerning geese. It dates to the 6th century AD and comes from Elephantine.

In English machine translation

[recto] Price: 1/2 xestes (?) ☧ The account of [...]rakos (?) [...] 5 Barley, 2 modii, 1 mation Oil, 2 xestai [...]kma, 1 modius [...] 2 ☧ for barley, 1 mation [...] 20 ☧ [verso] [...]kos, account of the geese: 1 mation, mation

The second line mixes Coptic letters with Greek and its reading is uncertain. The mation and modius are dry measures, the xestes a liquid measure.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Compte gréco-copte). 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 · VI · Elephantine

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