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Account of ferry dues on exported goods by day TM 28090unbekanntII - III

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An account of ferry (porthmeia) dues collected over ten- and five-day periods, listing each person exporting goods by boat, the cargo, and the charge paid. Days with no traffic are marked with the jesting phrase "profit of Hermes". It dates to the 2nd or 3rd century AD.

In English machine translation

[1] And the receipts from the 11th to the 20th of the ferry-tax; they are as follows: 11th: Antinoos, exporting in a small raft-boat 40 pentadia, for expense 20 drachmas. Heron, exporting in a large (?) paktōn two sacks of wool, for expense 80 drachmas. And from the 12th to the 13th: profit (gain) of Hermes (nil). 14th: Phesis, exporting on official business (?) in a Greek boat seven mats of barley, weighing 14 litras, without expense. 15th: Drakon, exporting in his own large (?) paktōn 200 pentadia, for expense 100 drachmas. 16th: profit of Hermes (nil). 17th: Aithiopous, exporting in a small Greek boat two mats of barley, weighing 4 litras, for expense 80 drachmas. And from the 18th to the 20th: profit of Hermes (nil). ⟦Total for the five-day period⟧ Total for the ten-day period, all together, 280 drachmas. [2] […] for expense […] 27th: Sarapion, likewise exporting in a small skiff-prowed boat […] 1, of which for expense 80 drachmas. 28th: profit of Hermes (nil). 29th: Herodianos, exporting in a small skiff-prowed boat baskets […] for expense 20 drachmas. […]: Paouesis, exporting in a Greek boat […] 20 drachmas. 30th: profit of Hermes (nil). Total for the five-day period, all together, 260 drachmas. And of the surplus (?) likewise 888 drachmas. Altogether, 1,148 (?) drachmas, which they have also paid in at the bank […]

"Profit of Hermes" (kerdōn Hermēs) seems to be a set expression for days with no income. The grand total figure and several cargo descriptions are uncertain in reading.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below. It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.

bgu.3.812

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · II - III

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