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Title Farm Account
Summary Side 1: Accounts referring to farm produce. Some words remain unknown or unclear as to meaning. Side 2: Remnants of a private letter about which little sense can be made. (Della Vida)
Citations
Inv. Id P.Penn. Museum inv.E16255
Support/Dimensions 21.0 x 5.0cm. Relatively well-preserved piece of paper with creases and several small holes throughout.
Origin Egypt
More from Egypt
Language Arabic
Date 10th-11th CE
More from the period between 900 CE and 1099 CE
Note (general) Text is on both sides. Side 1 is in two columns, the first (at right) is three lines; the second (at the left) is five lines. Side 2, which was cut through its length, has the beginnings of 14 lines of a private letter, written perpendicular to the shorter side. Only a few letters remain from each line so no sense can be derived.
Note (local/note) Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Ellen W. Harrison Collection.
Subjects paper; documentary; account; letter
License Creative Commons License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 License.

APIS Translation (English)

Side 1: Column 1: 1. The first (time) barley, forty ardabbs. 2. And a second time, barley, eight ardabbs less two thirds. 3. And on his debt . . . twenty ardabbs of wheat. What the tenant received: thirty-two ardabbs, a third time, wheat. Column 2: 1. Beans, the first time to . . . . . and . . . . .; wheat for the rented field. 2. nineteen ardabbs of beans 3. A second time, eleven ardabbs of beans, on the third(?) thirty-one 4. A second time, eleven ardabbs of beans. 5. Fifty-two ardabbs on the fourth. Sixty-one ardabbs and a half. (Della Vida)