Account from Hermon
Hermon presents an account of what he had spent on the shearing of the Arabian and Milesian sheep belonging to the estate and on the packing of the wool, besides some other small expenses.
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Account of Hermon's expenses on shearing sheep and packing wool TM 1070Kharabet el Gerza (ancient Philadelphia)mid 3rd c. B.C.
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An expense account submitted by Hermon for work on the estate's sheep: plucking and shearing Arabian and Milesian sheep, mats and boxes for packing wool, boat transport and a tax on soapwort. It comes from the Zenon archive at Philadelphia in the Fayum, mid 3rd century BC.
In English machine translation
[recto]
Account of what Hermon has spent
on the sheep:
to those plucking the skin-covered (sheep), 2 drachmas 5 obols
to those shearing the Arabian (sheep), 3 drachmas 2 obols
mats in which the wool
of the Arabian (sheep)
was packed, 3 obols
and for the Milesian (sheep)
7 boxes, 4 drachmas 1 1/4 obols
to Arianis, skipper of
Ariston's light boat,
4 drachmas in copper
tax on soapwort, 5 1/2 obols
and from the 10 drachmas which
Pyrrhos the farmer said he received from
you, so that he used them for us, 7 drachmas
Total together 22 drachmas 5 1/4 obols
[verso]
From Hermon,
(account) of what was spent
on the sheep.
"Skin-covered" (hypodiphthera) sheep were fine-wooled animals kept in protective coats, whose wool was plucked rather than shorn. Strouthion is soapwort, used for washing wool.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Account from Hermon). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
p.cair.zen.3.59430
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