Account of Camel Drivers
Account of Camel Divers
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 89238
Account of camel drivers with numbers of camels and loads TM 89238This document was discovered in a Roman dump at Berenike.A.D. 50 - 75
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Fragment of an account listing camel drivers with the number of camels and loads each handled, with running totals. It was found in a Roman rubbish dump at the Red Sea port of Berenike and dates to about AD 50-75.
In English machine translation
[... lines lost ...]
[...] ... total [...]
[...] ... total 11 camels, 5 loads [...]
⟦Pouonsis (son?) of Beronike, 16 camels and ... [...]⟧
⟦1 camel, 1 load, 5 artabas⟧
Aulus son of Miresis, decurion (?), 22 camels, ... loads [...]
Andouros son of Pakoibis, camels ... [...]
Eponychos [...]
Two lines were struck out by the scribe. The abbreviation read as 'decurion' (dekanos) probably marks a leader of a group of camel drivers rather than a military rank.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Account of Camel Drivers). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
o.berenike.2.212
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