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Account of wheat and barley from estates, cultivators and monks TM 128716Hermopolitesspätes V - VI (?)

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An account of wheat and barley, with some cash sums, received from cultivators, estates, orchards and monks (including the monks of abba Apollos) as rent and other dues. It dates to the late 5th or 6th century AD and comes from the Hermopolite nome.

In English machine translation

[column i] […] Pachon 9, indiction […] […] […] […] 902 artabas […] […] for rent of plots of land […] 900 (?), barley artabas […] […] wheat artabas […] […] 175 artabas […] 35 […] for rent […] […] […] […] […] […] […] […] […] […] wheat 128 artabas, barley artabas […] 21 […] 18 […] barley artabas […] […] […] […] 23 and 12 […] [column ii] […] cultivator near the fields (?), wheat artabas […], barley 2 artabas […] […] cultivator of Mouchis, wheat 26 artabas, barley artabas […] […] cultivator of the orchard of Magdola, wheat artabas […], barley 4 artabas […] […] orchard […] […] estate of Maiouma, wheat 30 artabas, barley artabas […] […] for gift, 1[…] carats […] […] estate of Topotnouphis, wheat 36[…] artabas […] […] for gift, 12 carats […] cultivator of abba Bois, wheat 13 1/2 artabas, barley 1[…] artabas […] From the monks of abba Apollos, wheat 22 1/2 artabas, barley artabas […] […] the headman (?), wheat 41 artabas, barley artabas […] […] cultivator […]bis, wheat 22 1/2 artabas, barley artabas […] For rent of the hamlet of Hermodoros, 1 solidus less 5 carats, and 150,000 talents […] Estate of abba Kyriakos, wheat 21 artabas, barley […] Total: wheat 647 1/2 artabas, barley 94 artabas, 1 solidus less 5 carats and […] Grand total: wheat […]57 3/4 artabas, barley 953 1/2 artabas, solidi […] […] 150,000 talents, 2,750, and […] […] steward, for arrears of the account of the 7th indiction […] monks of abba Apollos, 8th indiction From […] 8th indiction

Column i is badly damaged and only figures survive. Money is reckoned in gold solidi and carats alongside large sums of devalued talents, typical of late antique accounting.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Wheat and Barley 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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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · spätes V - VI (?) · Hermopolites

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