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Account of deliveries in pounds from villages and hamlets TM 381923Bawit (Hermopolites, Ägypten)VII - VIII

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A Greek account from Bawit recording dated deliveries, measured in pounds, received from several villages and hamlets (Tilota, Ekou, Hermitarion, the hamlet of Georgios, the hamlet of Zoilos, Issos) during the months Mecheir and Phamenoth. It dates to the 7th-8th century AD.

In English machine translation

[recto] […] From the hamlet of Tilota(?) […] Mecheir 4, 2 pounds; Mecheir 28, […] pounds […] Mecheir 13, 5 pounds; Phamenoth 14, […] pounds […] Mecheir 20, 4 pounds; Phamenoth 29, […] pounds […] From the village of Ekou Mecheir 3, 20+ pounds; Mecheir 27, 20+ pounds […] Mecheir 9, […] pounds; Phamenoth 9, 10+ pounds […] Mecheir 16, […] pounds; Phamenoth 15, […] pounds […] Mecheir […], […] pounds; Phamenoth 22, […] pounds […] From the village of Hermitarion Mecheir 8, 9 pounds; Phamenoth 23, 5 1/2 pounds […] Phamenoth […], 13 pounds; Phamenoth 28, 9 1/2 pounds […] Phamenoth 13, […]5 pounds From the hamlet of Georgios Mecheir 5, 20 pounds; Mecheir 28, 18 pounds […] Mecheir 16, 21 pounds; Phamenoth 7, 10+ pounds […] Phamenoth 24, 4 1/2 pounds From the hamlet of Zoilos Mecheir 5, 10 pounds [From the village of] Issos […] 8 [pounds]; Phamenoth […], 1 1/2 pounds […] […] 4 [pounds]; Phamenoth […], 9 pounds […] […] 21 1/2 [pounds]; Phamenoth 17, […] pounds […] […] 4 [pounds]; Phamenoth 24, 8 pounds […] […] [verso] […] […] […] pounds […] 1 1/2 pounds […] […] […] pounds […] […]5 […] 1/2 […] […] 20 pounds […] […] pounds […] […] […] pounds […] […] pounds […] 11 1/2 pounds […] […] 10 1/2 pounds […] […] 19 pounds […] […]

The commodity delivered is not named in the surviving text; the litra (pound) was used for goods such as meat, oil or wool. An epoikion was a small hamlet or estate settlement, a chorion a village.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Compte (en grec)). 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 · VII - VIII · Bawit (Hermopolites, Ägypten)

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