One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 35346

Account of expenditures for wool, milk, sacks and orchard rent TM 35346HerakleopolitesV

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Fragment of an account listing expenditures, including payments for wool, cows' milk and hair sacks, a payment made through field guards, and orchard rent connected with a man named Phoibammon. It dates to the 5th century AD and comes from the Herakleopolite nome.

In English machine translation

[recto] […] […] For the price of wool […] For the price of cows' milk […] For the price of hair sacks, 24 1/2 […] Through the field guards, for the price […] […] owed […] […] of the hamlet (?) […] […] likewise from 12 […] (Total) 34 1/4 solidi, 1/60, 3 carats […] For the rent of the orchard of Phoibammon […] [verso] […]

The total is given in solidi (gold coins) with fractions and carats, a smaller unit of account. The field guards (pediophylakes) were village officials who watched over crops.

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

[r] [… ? lines lost …] [… 1 line lost …] τιμῆς ἐρέας […] τιμῆς γάλακτος βοῶν […] τιμῆς σάκκων τριχίνων 𐅵 κδ […] διὰ τῶν πεδιοφυλάκων ὑπὲρ τιμῆς[…] χ[…] ὀφειλομ […] Ε[…] ἐποικίου […] Ε[…]κ ὁμοίως ἀπὸ ιβ […] ὁμοῦ νομίσματα λδ δ ἑξηκοστὸν κεράτια γ […] ὑπὲρ φόρου πωμαρίου Φοιβάμμωνο…