Account of Grain
List of contributions in kind (and in money?)
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 41961
Account of wheat contributions with collector's name TM 41961UnknownIVth century A.D.
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An ostracon listing individuals and the amounts of wheat, in artabas, that each contributed or owed, with one entry also recording 25 drachmas in money. It ends with the name of Mysthes, the collector (praktor). It dates to the 4th century AD.
In English machine translation
Dionysis son of Longinus, wheat, 4 artabas
Nikon son of Pankras, wheat, 1 artaba
Kolluthos, his brother, wheat, 1 artaba
Nemesas son of Sarapion, wheat, 1 artaba
Neileus son of Aphrodisios, wheat, 3 3/4 artabas
Ousebas son of Orsenouphis, wheat, 2 artabas and 1
Panetb son of Dioskourides, wheat, 1 artaba, 25 drachmas
Pamoutis son of Ophellios, wheat, artabas …
Mysthes son of Apynchis, wheat, 2 artabas
Petermoutis together with
Psekes, 4
Mysthes, collector.
A praktor was a tax or levy collector; the list probably records payments in kind toward a levy. The figure in Pamoutis' entry is illegible.
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 Grain). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
o.mich.1.20
Διονῦσις Λογγίνου πυροῦ ἀρτάβας δ Νίκων Πανκρᾶ πυροῦ ἀρτάβην α Κολλοῦθος ἀδελφὸς πυροῦ ἀρτάβην α Νεμεσᾶς Σαραπίωνος πυροῦ ἀρτάβην α Νειλεὺς Ἀφροδισίου πυροῦ ἀρτάβας γ 𐅵 δ Οὐσεβᾶς Ὀρσενούφιος πυροῦ ἀρτάβας β καὶ α Πανὲτβ Διοσκουρίδου πυροῦ ἀρτάβην α δραχμὰς κε Παμοῦτις Ὀφελλίου πυ…