One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 121957
Account of wine payments for leatherwork and transport TM 121957Hermopolite nomeIII or IV CE
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Fragment of an estate account recording payments in wine, measured in knidia, to leatherworkers for treating hides for ploughs, wagon yokes, herdsmen and donkey-drivers, and to camel-drivers transporting wine. It comes from the Hermopolite nome and dates to the 3rd or 4th century AD.
In English machine translation
[Column 1]
[...]
[...] ploughs, wine 2 knidia;
[...] to the same for the treatment of another hide for the yoke-straps of wagons, that is [...] (?), wine 2 knidia;
to the same for the treatment of small hides [...] given to the herdsmen: Apollon son of Tesneus 1, Parous the under-herdsman 1, Herminos the herdsman 1, total wine 3 knidia;
to the same leatherworkers for the treatment of other small hides for the use of the sack-carrying donkey-drivers [...] of the hides lying (in store), wine 4 knidia;
for tearing (?), through Paesis and [...], camel-drivers, in the transport of the wine of Areos, wine 2 knidia;
total wine 20 knidia,
making 10 [...]
from the account of chaff, from the price of chaff, wine as stated in the wine expenditure [...]
and in money likewise as stated in the money expenditure [...]
[...] of Lytis likewise [...]
[...] of the same through Silvanus [...]
[...]
[...] Jacob [...]
[...]
[...] through Euty[...] [...]
[...] Eutych[...] [...]
[...] Temseu Skordon [...]
[...]
[...]
[Column 2]
12 [...]
[...]
from you [...]
of which [...]
from the account [...]
[...]
The knidion was a wine jar used as a unit of measure. The meaning of 'lakema' (here rendered 'tearing') and of 'oure' is uncertain.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Account). 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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