Account of barley
A note of the quantities of barley issued to various persons in years 33, 34 and 35. The quantities were large, the total being nearly 36,600 artabs.
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Account of barley issued in years 33 to 35 TM 937Kharabet el Gerza (ancient Philadelphia)251 or 250 B.C.
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An account of large quantities of barley issued to various individuals, including grain officials (sitologoi), in regnal years 33, 34 and 35 of Ptolemy II, totalling nearly 36,600 artabas. It comes from the Zenon archive at Philadelphia in the Arsinoite nome.
In English machine translation
[column 1]
Year 33, Mecheir 29
To Koroibides, a loan, barley 700
Pauni
To Ptolemaios from Arsinoe
in exchange for 127 (artabas of) poppy, barley 765
Hathyr
To Diogenes for the Memphite (nome), barley 1,108 3/4
[column 2]
To Sosos for Memphis, barley 470
Total for year 33, barley 3,043 3/4
Year 34, Mecheir, to Pyrrhos
through Sostratos, barley 500
To Petearmotes, barley 500
[column 3]
To Koroibides, barley 6,000
To Etearchos, barley 1,436
To Hippias, barley 200
To Pasis the man of Python, barley 2,000
To Apollodotos, sitologos, barley 1,060
To Harendotes, sitologos, barley 2,427 1/2
[column 4]
To Koroibides, [barley 3,591 2/3]
[…] son of Philiskos
in exchange for 120 2/3 artabas of poppy, barley 844 2/3
and for making up
the account of Apollonios, barley 657
[Total] for year 34, barley 19,216
[column 5]
Year 35, Mecheir
To Diogenes, barley 4,700
and freight charge, barley 352 1/2
To Demetrios, sitologos,
barley 3,175
Epeiph, to Laboïs so as
[column 6]
to Herakleides, barley 4,325 3/4
To Python, barley 1,000
To Harendotes, barley 565 1/2
To Harmodios, barley 220
Total barley 14,338 3/4
Grand total barley 36,599 1/3 (?) artabas
[column 7]
On behalf of Artemidoros the doctor, barley 3,500
which we have added under receipts, for which 5
[verso]
2 1/2 obols, remainder 1 1/2 1/4 obol, 1 chalkous
16,071
6 talents
9,281
A sitologos was an official in charge of a state granary. The final fraction of the grand total is partly restored; the verso figures are unrelated calculations.
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 barley). 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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