A summary list (breve) of payments in wheat, barley and money owed or delivered by individuals of the village of Hermoupolis in the Arsinoite nome, compiled from handwritten documents. Contributors include veterans, landowners and the village community. It belongs to the Abinnaeus archive of the mid-4th century AD.
In English machine translation
Breve (summary list) of wheat and barley from the written declarations (?) of the village of Hermoupolis:
Gerontios and Horion, wheat 12 artabas
Maximos son of Aioneus, wheat 9 artabas
Kyrillos son of Philippos, wheat 13 1/2 artabas
Heron, veteran, wheat 17 artabas
Sabinus, veteran, wheat 14 artabas
From the community of the people of the village, wheat 1/2 artaba
and barley 30 artabas
Of money payments likewise:
Ammon, landowners in Hermoupolis, 118 talents 2000 (drachmas)
Ision son of Maron, 340 talents
Posidonios son of Timagenes, 750 talents
Sabinus and Heron, 827 talents
Philippos, 340 talents
Ploutammon son of Hatres, 167 talents
Zoilos and Alitis and Melas, 420 talents
Philippos, 533 talents
Kyrillos, 1 solidus
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Hermoupolis here is a village in the Fayum, not the great city of Hermopolis Magna. Breve is a Latin loanword for a summary account; the 'B' after 118 talents is read as 2000 drachmas.
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.