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Account of receipts of the estate of the comes Hadrianos TM 38873HermopolisVII

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A fragment of a money account recording receipts of the estate of the comes Hadrianos at Hermopolis in the 7th century AD. It lists payments made through groups of cultivators, including wheat dues partly commuted into gold solidi, and a payment for an orchard.

In English machine translation

† With God. Account of receipts of the estate of the lord Hadrianos, comes […] [… 21 lines lost …] Through the cultivators of the vegetable land of Hermopolis, for gold taxes Through the cultivators of Psilamonthis Through the cultivators of the land irrigation machines (?) of Hermopolis Through the cultivators of the two arouras of Thasagarl (?), Hermopolis To the synegor[…] (?), from 115 artabas of wheat by the receiving measure, for commutation into money of 72 artabas of wheat at 12 (per solidus), 6 solidi, and 43 artabas of wheat Through the cultivators of Adelphios, from 82 1/2 artabas of wheat by the receiving measure, for commutation into money of 60 artabas of wheat at 12 (?), 4 solidi, and 22 1/2 artabas of wheat For the price of an orchard at the place called Neos, 4 solidi counted, 3 solidi 8 carats

Apargyrismos is the conversion of dues in kind (here wheat) into money payment; the rate of 12 artabas per solidus fits the figures. Several abbreviations (e.g. synegor-, Thasagarl, gēdia organa) are of uncertain meaning.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Money account (receipts)). 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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p.lond.5.1907

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · VII · Hermopolis

† σὺν Θεῷ λόγος λημμάτων τῆς οὐσίας τοῦ κυρίου Ἁδριανοῦ κόμιτος […] [… 21 lines lost …] διὰ τῶν γεωργῶν τῆς λαχανιᾶς Ἑρμουπόλεως ὑπὲρ χρυσικῶν διὰ τῶν γεωργῶν Ψιλαμώνθεως διὰ τῶν γεωργῶν τῶν γῃδίων ὀργάνων Ἑρμουπόλεως διὰ τῶν γεωργῶν τῶν δύο ἀρουρῶν Θασαγαρλ Ἑρμουπόλεως τῇ συνηγο…