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Account of wheat with deductions for seed, priests and ferryman TM 3118Hermopolis111 v.Chr.

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An account of wheat, apparently in artabas, from Hermopolis in 111 BC. It deducts shares, seed held in common, payments to a donkey-driver, priests of Souchos and a ferryman, and amounts to Petosiris and Psaethios, tracking the remainder after each deduction.

In English machine translation

[column 1] From 88 1/2, of which there falls to him 3 1/2 1/12. Seed in common 26 1/4. From 3 2/3 (?), in common 2. To the donkey-driver 3 2/3; total 35 1/6. Remainder: 53 1/3 (?), of which half is 26 2/3. From which I sold to him at the half-artaba 5. There remains 21 1/2 1/3 1/12. To the priests, for Souchos, 2 1/2 choinikes (?). To the ferryman 1. Remainder: 18 1/6. 8 1/2. [column 2] 18 1/6, Epeiph. Remainder: 18 1/2. Petosiris 3 1/2 1/3. Psaethios 7 1/3 1/12. Remainder: 6 1/2 1/12 [1/12].

The fractions are written as Greek numeral signs and some readings (e.g. the sign read as choinikes beside the priests' entry) are uncertain; the arithmetic does not always reconcile. Souchos is the crocodile god Sobek.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Compte de blé). 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 · 111 v.Chr. · Hermopolis

[column 1] ἀπὸ πη 𐅵 ὧν ἐμπίπτει αὐτῶι γ 𐅵 ιβ σπέρματα ἐν κοινῶι κϛ δ ἀπὸ γ γ ἐν κοινῶι β ὀνηλάτηι γ γ γίνονται λε ϛ λοιπόν· νγ γ ὧν τὸ 𐅵 κϛ 𐅷 ἀφʼ ὧν πέπρακα αὐτῶι εἰς τὸ ἡμιαρτάβιον ε καταλείπεται κα 𐅵 γ ιβ ἱερεῖς Σούχωι χα β 𐅵 πορθμεῖ α λοιπόν· ιη ϛ η 𐅵 [column 2] ιη ϛ Ἐπείφ λοι…