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List of various goods TM 38724HerakleopolitesVII - VIII

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A fragmentary list of miscellaneous goods, such as hides, woods, ropes, poultry, lambs, oil and butter, mostly in quantities of six, one or a twelfth, with numbers written both as figures and words. It comes from the Herakleopolite nome and dates to the 7th-8th century AD.

In English machine translation

[… lines lost …] […] pack-saddles […] sack-cloths 6, six; […] 6, six; wooden handles(?) 6, six; […] 6, six; hides […] 6, six; raw hides 6, six; hides […] 6, six; goat-skins 6, six; billy-goat skins 6, six; red hides 6, six; of palm branches, of a bundle 1/12, a twelfth; of reeds, of a bundle 1/12, a twelfth; acacia (wood) 1, one; fig wood 1, one; heather wood 1, one; wood […] 1, one; olive 1, one; persea 1, one; pine cone(?) 1, one; […] 1, one; of a mat 1/12, a twelfth; ropes(?) 6, six; of fat 6 pounds, six; of milk butter 6 sextarii, six; bronze sextarius-measure 1, one; bronze […] 1, one; palm-leaf baskets(?) 6, six; beams 6, six; […] 1, one; of curved firewood 6 centenaria, six; mixed ropes 6, six; ropes of rush 3, three; ropes of hair […] aroura 1, one; […] 6, six; quails 6, six; chickens 6, six; goslings 6, six; lambs 2, two; unmilked kids 6, six; of goat hair 6 pounds, six; […] 6, six; […] bull 1, one; […] 2, two; tablet(?) […] knot(?) 1, one; of vine branches 6 bundles, six; pack-saddle 1, one; limpets(?) 6, six; […] 6, six; of oil 6 sextarii, six; […] […] 1/12, a twelfth; […] 1, one; […] 6, six; ropes […] […] 1, one; […] has 12 solidi counted out […]

Many abbreviated items are uncertain and several cannot be resolved. The recurring fractions and set numbers suggest a fixed schedule of contributions rather than an ordinary inventory.

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

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