One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 316734
Receipt to the shepherds of Mouchis TM 316734Muchis (Arsinoites, Ägypten)Between 250 and 150 B.C.
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Opening of a receipt in which a certain Dionysios acknowledges receiving something from the shepherds of the village of Mouchis in the Arsinoite nome. It is dated Year 7, Choiak 13, corresponding to 26 January 215 BC.
In English machine translation
Year 7, Choiak 13.
Dionysios acknowledges that he has received from the […] of Mouchis, shepherds […]
Only the opening survives, so what was received is lost; the place name and the word 'shepherds' are largely restored. One record dates the papyrus only broadly, between 250 and 150 BC.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Receipt to the shepherds of Mouchis). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
jjp.42.44
ἔτους ζ Χοιὰχ ιγ ὁμολογεῖ Διονύσιος ἔχειν παρὰ τῶν […] ἐγ Μούχεως ποιμένων