Accounts of transport
Description
These two accounts, written by the same hand and following the same formula, relate to two villages in the Lower toparchy of the nome. The names of the villages preced as headings, and below are entered various sums for barges, desert dues, crown tax, wages for camelmen, each of these being followed by a kind of prosdiagraphomena called "eremon", the amount of which is always approximately 10% of the preceding sum. Since three out of the four main items are evidently concerned with transport either by land or water, it seems natural to connect "eremon" with the well-known "eremophulakia". The fourth main item, however, "stephanika", for which large sums are entered in both accounts, is obscure. If this is an unusual variant for "stephanika", the addition of a percentage for "eremophylakia" is surprising; but "stephanika "can be regarded as an epithet of "ploia" understood.
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Cross-references (8)
- TM-Text 31773 primary
- TM-Text 31774 primary
- APIS-Text perkins.apis.3998 tier-1
- DDbDP-Text p.oxy;14;1652A tier-1
- DDbDP-Text p.oxy;14;1652B tier-1
- DDbDP-Text p.oxy.14.1652 tier-1
- HGV-Text 31774 tier-1
- HGV-Text 31773 tier-1
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