One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 82845

Account of wheat quantities assigned to individuals TM 82845Elephantine ?VI - VII

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Fragmentary account listing quantities of wheat, in artabas and measures, against individual names, among them an archdeacon, an actuarius named Patermouthis, and probably a gatekeeper. It dates to the 6th or 7th century AD and probably comes from Elephantine.

In English machine translation

[…]ros son of Nars(?), wheat 1 artaba […] […] Haronch(?), archdeacon, wheat 2 artabas […] Iot son of Chal[…], 2 measures […] Patermouthis, actuarius, wheat 69 artabas […]g son of Kosmas, 6 measures […] wheat […] artabas, portarius (?), wheat […] artabas […] […] wheat 4 artabas […] wheat […] artabas […] wheat […] artabas, […] measures […]

An actuarius was a military or administrative official in charge of supplies, and the portarius was probably a gatekeeper. The 'measure' (metron) was a smaller grain unit than the artaba.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Le compte O. Brit. Mus. Copt. I, Pl. LXXXVIII 5). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.

cde.85.370_3

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

[…]ρος Ναρσ σίτου ἀρτάβη α … […] ϩαρωνχ ἀρχιδιάκονος σίτου ἀρτάβαι β […] Ἰωτ Χαλ… μέτρα β […] Πατερμοῦθις ἀκτουάριος σίτου ἀρτάβαι ξθ […]…γ Κοσμᾶ μέτρα ϛ […] σίτου ἀρτάβαι … πορταρήσιος σίτου ἀρτάβαι […] […] σίτου ἀρτάβαι δ […] σίτου ἀρτάβαι … […]σ σίτου ἀρτάβαι … μέτρα … […]