Wadi Sarga - Coptic and Greek text edited by W. E. Crum and H. I. Bell with an Introduction by R. Campbell Thompson

Date:
1922
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/52/66
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Credit: Wadi Sarga - Coptic and Greek text edited by W. E. Crum and H. I. Bell with an Introduction by R. Campbell Thompson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    beginnings of the lines are preserved, all the entries are credited to the same person (A/ omot/ in 122 must mean this, and in 123 no person is named, which seems to imply that the same wine- grower is concerned throughout; so too in 125 ll. 1 and 2 may well be a heading, 1. 1 giving the personal name or names, J. 2 that of the estate, while the remaining lines specify the single deliveries); the inference being that these accounts were arranged under personal rubrics. Hence the single items do not necessarily specify the total amount of wine carried by the camel-driver concerned but only the amount brought by him from the estate to which the rubric refers; one camel-driver might bring wine from several consignors. A more serious objection is perhaps the fact that in r2z Phoebammon seems to occur for both the second (1. 3) and the frst (b; 7) gopd; but this is not decisive. In 1. 74, though almost, is not quite certain; there may conceivably have been two camel-drivers named Phoebammon; and as we do not know the distance from which in this case the wine was brought, we cannot say for certain that it was impossible for the same camel- driver to take part in two convoys on the same day. It will be seen that, imperfect as they are, these accounts have yet a certain value as illustrating the daily routine of supply in a monastic settlement. They are also of interest by reason of the-measures which occur in them (for this subject see the section Metrology in the General Introduction). Col. 1.] [A] O]mor/ WX hop! A] KL. .] KAMIAILTOY] — ol] / KH... = [A/ o]m[o}/ 1A 8 hop] A] i@AN/ MApOoy o1/ pop] is x [A/] omol/ T/ B A/ cote! KAMIArroy [o1/] pop) A x A] omol/ B bop] [A/?MA] KAP KAMIAIT [LOY ov pop] J] x 5 Aj omot 1A r [bop] A/ . Jb. HCT.. ot bflop/..] A./| OMOI/ INT pop! A./ rEq@pri KAMIA/ oft/ op| 25 Ae i. A.| OmMOI 1A» pop] A/ ol[B/] KAmi[A/] Aj omol/ TOY. “IN F pop! A/ Ae eee A/ omoi/ ewe iA x pop] A/ L..... ik