Account of sheep and goats
An account of sheep and goats.
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 1396
Account of purchased sheep and goats, with building expenses and wine issues TM 1396Kharabet el Gerza (ancient Philadelphia)mid 3rd c. B.C.
The same ancient text or artifact as recorded by 3 records across 3 independent projects, recognised as one entity by its TM-Text identifier. View on Trismegistos →
An account from the Zenon archive at Philadelphia in the Fayum, mid-3rd century BC, listing purchased sheep by category and money paid to Amortaios, shepherds and others. The back records expenses for stelae, a bridge, stonework, gravel and iron, and wine issued to Herieus and Petenoubis.
In English machine translation
[recto]
[Year …], Tybi.
[The sheep] purchased […] of Ptolemaios.
⟦There are […] sheep …⟧
Of these:
half-shorn (?) 7
unshorn (bare) 43
half-shorn 30
males 21
early lambs 20
late lambs 9
nanny goats 2
⟦rams for culling 2⟧
Amortaios for goats
has for this 22 drachmas of silver.
Inquire who Tonas is.
From the 60 drachmas:
to Nereus 20 drachmas
to the shepherds of Amortaios 10 drachmas
to the Arab 10 drachmas
to Sosos 20 drachmas
[verso]
For 12 stelae which […] receives (?) from Philiskos, and Philiskos […] to bring, 10 drachmas.
For the bridge which you did not build, 6.
For the stonework which you still leave outstanding.
Of Kyniskos, for gravel.
From Nikon, for new iron, 13 drachmas 3 obols.
[verso, margin]
After the dressing (?) of stones, which we give to Kyniskos, … of it, 2 obols.
[verso]
Through Cheilon to Herieus, wine 12 choes 4 1/2 kotylai.
To Petenoubis the father, wine 7 choes 11 kotylai.
The sheep categories (epikoura, psila, hemikoura) refer to shearing state and their exact sense is uncertain. Choes and kotylai are liquid measures for wine.
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 sheep and goats). 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.4.59771
[r] ἔτους[…] Τῦβι. τὰ ἀγορασθέντα πρόβατα […]Πτολεμαίου. τούτων ἐπίκουρα ζ ψιλὰ μγ ἡμίκουρα λ ἄρσενα κα ἄρνες πρώιμοι κ ὄψιμοι θ αἶγες β Ἀμορτάιος αἰγῶσιν εἰς τοῦτο ἔχει ἀργυρίου δραχμὰς κβ σκέψασθαι Τῶνα τίς ἐστιν ἀπὸ τῶν ξ δραχμῶν Νηρεῖ δραχμαὶ κ ποιμέσιν τοῖς Ἀμορτάιος δραχμαὶ…