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Account of hired camels and donkeys and grain transported from Tesmounei TM 32373HermopolitesIV - V

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A daily account of hired camels and donkeys used to transport grain, followed by the quantities of wheat and barley carried day by day from the village of Tesmounei to the city. It comes from the Hermopolite nome and dates to the 4th or 5th century AD.

In English machine translation

Account of camels and donkeys. We received on hire […] Day 1: 9 camels Day 2: 12 camels and 1 donkey Day 3: 10 camels and 1 donkey Day 4: 9 camels and 1 donkey Day 5: 10 camels and 1 donkey Day 6: 7 camels and 1 donkey Day 7: Iouvinos, 8 camels and 1 donkey The camel-drivers are occupied with 10 camels. Day 8: 2 camels. Carried off to the granary on day 1: 64 artabas and through Eulogios, officialis: 21 artabas to the granary: 27 artabas. Account of what was carried to the city from Tesmounei: Day 1: wheat, 96 artabas Day 2: wheat, 80 artabas Day 3: wheat, 74 artabas Day 4: wheat, 80 artabas Day 5: wheat, 62 artabas Day 6: wheat, 75 artabas Day 7: wheat, 20 artabas; barley, 15 artabas

An officialis was a member of an official's staff. The city is presumably Hermopolis.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Liste). 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 · IV - V · Hermopolites

λόγος καμήλων καὶ ὄνων. παρελάβαμεν ἐπὶ μισθώσει[…] αἡμέρᾳ κάμηλοι θ β ἡμέρᾳ κάμηλοι ιβ καὶ ὄνος α γ ἡμέρᾳ κάμηλοι ι καὶ ὄνος α δ ἡμέρᾳ κάμηλοι θ καὶ ὄνος α ε ἡμέρᾳ κάμηλοι ι καὶ ὄνος α ϛ ἡμέρᾳ κάμηλοι ζ καὶ ὄνος α ζ ἡμέρᾳ Ἰουβῖνος κάμηλοι η καὶ ὄνος α ἀσχολοῦσι καμηλῖται καμήλων…