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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    the quantity of each per camel-load. There are difficulties in this explanation, but it is probably correct. a ++ A/ IMANNH MO . . EAC KAMHAITOY % doyPa MIKPA KNIAIA EKATON s AAXANOCCMEPM>® OAAA| On AWMAGEKA TE KAMHAIA A CIC KN“ p § KAMHAIA S CIC AAX/ OdAA/ © ErPAd!| MH O@O Ks INA/ as Al EMOY HAIAC APL TAK[A] 10 NH-RKAN E60 Nl... J ME[ “By John son of (?) Po—eas, camel-driver, 1st convoy. A hundred small cnidia, and twelve thallia of vegetable seed, there being 4 camel(-loads) to 100 enidia and 6 camel(-loads) to 9 thallia of vegetable seed. Written Thoth 26, 4th indiction, by me, Elias. (Coptic:). Be so good,~even if (xd) you be...” I. mO..€Ac: the traces are really too indistinct for any certain reading; MOKNEAC or NO.rexc might perhaps be read, but MAPOEAC, which might be equated with napooy (121, 2, etc.; cf. too 159, 5), seems impossible. 2. poypa: the A at the end is very doubtful. 5. ti: very doubtful; what follows is certainly not a mere repetition of the preceding sums but seems to be a specification of the division of the quantities into camel-loads; cf, for a cer- tain instance, 2zz, 6. But it is not clear why only 9 QaAdta are mentioned in 1. 7. 6 loads to 9 thallia are 1'/, thallia per load; but since there were 12 thallia it would have been sim- pler to write KAMHAIA H GIC AXX/ EAAA/ 1B. In the case of the cnidia however the figures (100 cn. to 4 loads = 25 to 1) accord well with the evidence of 2rz, where 24 cn. = 1 load. 7. erpAp: more like cipad/, but ¢yeaeq must be meant. Coptiea Il... 15
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