An account of provisions (bread, oil, wine, vinegar, fish sauce, salted fish, wood, eggs and other foodstuffs) delivered from villages of the Hermopolite nome to the Arab amir Abderrahman through the steward abba Kyros. It dates to the early Islamic period, 7th-8th century AD.
In English machine translation
Statement of goods given from various villages to the most glorious Abderrahman, amir, through abba Kyros, pistikos, as follows:
From the village of Areos: bread, 1 centenarium and 20 pounds; oil, […] sextarii
From the village of Ophis: bread, 2 1/2 centenaria, and cumin […]
From the village of Sinarchebis: bread, 1 1/2 centenaria, and oil, […] sextarii
From the village of Pouampoimenis: bread, 6 centenaria; inferior oil, 3 sextarii; oil, 5 1/2
From the village of Sinkere: bread, 2 centenaria and 20 pounds; wine, 10 knidia; mustard, 1/6 artaba
From the village of Tlethmis: wood, 10 centenaria; wine, 10 knidia; vinegar, 9 sextarii; eggs, 36
From the village of Telais: wood, 5 centenaria; wine, 12 knidia; vinegar, 10 sextarii; eggs, 13
From the village of Temseu Moron: … oil, […] sextarii
From the village of Sebaemphis: wood, 10 centenaria
From the village of Lenaiou: wood, 5 1/2 centenaria
From the village of Ibion Sesembythis: wood, 15 centenaria, and wine, 6 knidia, and vinegar, 10 sextarii, and dates, 1/2 1/4 artaba, and grapes, 1/3 artaba, and eggs, 16
From the hamlet of Neilos: wood, 5 1/2 centenaria
From the village of Timonthis: bread, 2 centenaria
From the hamlet of Krere: salted fish, 12 knidia; fish sauce, 18 sextarii
From the hamlet of Peros: fish sauce, 12 sextarii
From the village of Busiris: onions, 3 artabas, and oil, 11 sextarii; inferior oil, 3 sextarii
From the hamlet of Dikaiarchou: salted fish, 1 kollathon, and 1 lakon
From the village of Sempitesis: … vinegar, 5 sextarii
Total: radish oil, 40 sextarii; inferior oil, 6 sextarii; fish sauce, 30 sextarii; vinegar, 34 sextarii; honey, 15 sextarii; and
wood, 51 centenaria; knidia, 38; salted fish, 5 kollatha; eggs, 110; mustard, 1 1/12 artaba(?)
cumin, 1 1/2 mattia
Knidion, kollathon, lakon and mattion are vessel or measure units with no exact English equivalent; a pistikos was a trusted agent or steward. The totals do not fully match the surviving entries, partly because some lines are damaged.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Übersicht von gelieferten Produkten). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.