The diagonal strokes after 1/3 may represent an additional fraction, perhaps 1/4;
1/6 seems less likely since 1/3 1/6 = 1/2. The curvature of the third sign in the
season name favors peret over shemw.
Catalogue no. 1; Nelson collection no. N69. 1/3 silver (kite) or 4 obols is the price
of 2 kotulai or 0..54 liter of oil. The scribe Esminis was responsible for many other
price of oil receipts from Thebes between years 30 and 38 of Ptolemy II. (See additional
OIM ostraca.)
OIM 19158, recto: (1) Tages(?) daughter of Pchorchonsis, 1/3...silver (kite) for the
price of oil (2) of Pharmouthi, has written Esminis (on) Egyptian year 36, Pharmouthi
29.