Receipt
Concerns herdsmen of Mouchis
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 43097
Receipt for wool delivered by the shepherds of Mouchis TM 43097Between 250 and 150 B.C.
The same ancient text or artifact as recorded by 2 records across 2 independent projects, recognised as one entity by its TM-Text identifier. View on Trismegistos →
A Ptolemaic receipt in which Demodikos acknowledges receiving wool from the shepherds of the village of Mouchis for year 6, with a counter-acknowledgement by Onnophris, agent of the district scribe Achoapis. Further entries record partial deliveries on days 11 and 26.
In English machine translation
Year 7, Pauni 3. I, Demodikos, have received
from the shepherds of Mouchis
wool […] for year 6
2 talents 11 1/2 1/3 1/12 minas, total 2 talents 11 1/2 1/3 1/12 minas.
Onnophris, the agent of Achoapis the
topogrammateus, acknowledges that there has been delivered through me from
the shepherds of Mouchis, of wool, 2 talents
11 1/2 1/3 1/12 minas, total 2 talents 11 1/2 1/3 1/12 minas.
(Day) 11: 1 talent 25 2/3 minas, total 1 talent 25 2/3 minas.
(Day) 26: 31 1/2 1/3 1/12 minas, total 31 1/2 1/3 1/12.
The topogrammateus was a Ptolemaic district-level village scribe. The weight is given in talents and minas (60 minas to the talent), and the two dated instalments add up to the total.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Receipt). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
jjp.42.42
ἔτους ζ Παῦνι γ. Δημόδικος ἔχω παρὰ τῶν ἐγ Μούχεως ποιμένων ἐρίων […] ὥστε εἶναι εἰς τὸ ϛ ἔτος τάλαντα δύο μνᾶς δέκα μίαν ἥμισυ γ ιβ γίνεται τάλαντα β μνᾶς ια 𐅵 γ ιβ ὁμολογεῖ Ὄννωφρις ὁ παρὰ Ἀχοάπιος τοῦ τοπογραμματέως δεδόσθαι δι’ ἐμοῦ παρὰ τῶν ἐγ Μούχεως ἐρίων τάλαντα δύο μνᾶς …