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Oxford Bodl. Ms. Heb. b. 5 (P)

Account of Sales, Income, and Inventory

TAD C.3.28 Cowley 81

Metadata

Collection
Bodlien Library, Oxford, UK | Bodl (Public)
Keywords
  • Account
  • Economic | Document
  • inventory
  • list
  • Record Roll
  • taxation document
Language
Aramaic
Script
Aramaic
Find Type
Unprovenanced: Purchase
Material
papyrus
Text Direction Side 1
parallel (∥) to the material's lines
Text Direction Side 2
perpendicular (⟂) to the material's lines
Updated by
James D. Moore, 2026-06-28
General Notes
Purchased by Sayce at Luxor. Perhaps from the remnaints of Persian administrators who remained in the Thebes region.

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Porten and Yardeni Last updated 07 April, 2026 by James D. Moore

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Porten and Yardeni Last updated 07 April, 2026 by James D. Moore

[In flagon(s) of] fours/fourths in our presence
Chelal: 1 ka at 1 sh(ekel), 2 q(uarters); 1 sh(ekel) remains (to be paid)
√ Nikias/Nikaios: 6 logs at 3 q(uartes); 1 m(aah and a) h(alf) remains (to be paid)
Entry Nikias/Nikaios: 6 logs at 3 q(uarters); 1 q(uarter) remains (to be paid)
Apollonios (son of) Jason: 1 ka (and a) h(alf) at 2 sh(ekels), 1 q(uarter)
√ J(o)naya (=“The Ionian”): 4 logs at 2 q(uarters)
√ J(o)naya: 1[+1] (=2) logs at 1 quarter
Entry Nikias/Nikaios: 6 logs at 3 q(uarters)
I: 2 logs
Nathan (son of) Nadb(a)I: 1 log at 1 m(aah and a) h(alf)
√ J(o)naya: 3 logs at 1 q(uarter), 1 m(aah and a) h(alf)
Entry Nikias/Nikaios: 6 logs at 3 q(uarters)
√ J(o)naya: 1+[x] logs
√ Nabis: 6 logs at 3 q(uarters)
√ J(o)naya: 4 logs at 2 q(arters)
Entry Nikias/Nikaios: 6 logs at 3 q(uarters)
2 q(uartres) remain (to be paid)
√ Judah: 2 logs at 1 q(uarter) (corrected from: 2 q{uarters})
Entry Nikias/Nikaios: 1 log (at) 1 m(aah and a) h(alf)
√ J(o)naya: 2 logs at 1 q(uarter)
√ J(o)naya: 1 ka (and a) h(alf) at [1+]1 (=2) [sh(eckels)], 1 q(uarter)
In falgon(s) of fives/fiths:
√ Isidoros: 2 logs at 1 q(uarters)
√ Pyrrhos/Poros: 1 ka at 1 sh(ekel), 2 q(uarters)
√ Herakleides: half (a ka) at 3 q(uarters)
√ Lysimachos: 7 logs at 3 q(uarters), 1 m(aah and a) h(alf)
√ Kestos/Kostas: 6 logs at 3 q(uarters)
√ PN: 5 logs at 2 q(uarters), 1 m(aah and a) h(alf) (corrected from: 4 logs at 2 q{uarters})
Abieti (son of) Nethina: 2 quarters
Abieti [(son of) Nethina]: 3 quarters (whole line erased)
√ Isidoros: 4 logs at 2 q(uarters)
√ J(o)naya: 6 logs at 3 q(uarters)
√ Bacchios: 9 logs at 1 sh(ekel), 1 m(aah and a) h(alf)
√ Jonaya: 2 logs at 1 q(uarter)
√ Judah: 5 logs at 2 q(uarters), 1 m(aah and a) h(alf) (corrected from: 3 logs at 1 q{uarter}), 1 m(aah and a) h(alf)
√ J(o)naya: 3 logs at 1 q(uarter), 1 m(aah and a) h(alf)
√ Reḥabel: 1 log at 1 m(aah and a) h(alf)
√ Abdi (son of) PN: 4 l[ogs] at 2 q(uarters)
√ J(o)naya: [2+]2 (=4) logs at 2 q(uarters)
√ Patepi: 4 logs at 2 q(uarters)
√ Patou: 6 logs at 3 q(uarters)
√ Jonaya: 4 logs at 2 q(uarters) (corrected from: 5 logs at 2 q[uarters], 1 m{aah and a} h{alf})
√ Zopyros: 2 logs at 1 q(uarter)
En(try) Patou: 2 kas at 3 sh(ekels); remain \5 maahs/ (to be paid)
√ Hermias: 3 logs [at] 1 q(uarter), 1 m(aah and a) h(alf)
[…]
In the house of Jashib yql hlʿtyk 5
In our house hlʿtyk 2 brʾmn 2 ptḥn
Objects of bronzw which they put on the date-palms of pḥn
This year for tax: 8 karsh, 1[+3] (=4) sh(ekels)
√ Entry Patou: 8 logs at 1 sh(ekels)
(Beginning Erased) 8 logs at 1 sh(ekel)
√ Patepi: 2 logs at 1 q(uarter) (corrected from: 4 logs at 2 q[uarters]). (Erased)
√ Abieti to our house: 3 quarters
Lysimachos: 4 [log]s at 2 q(uarters)
[…]
[…]
[…]
(Beginning Erased) [5]+3 (=8) [logs] at 1 sh(ekel)
(Beginning Erased) [4 logs] at 2 q(uarters)
(Beginning Erased) [4 logs] at 2 q(uarters)
(Beginning Erased) [4 logs] at 2 q(uarters)
[√ …] Nathan [… (rest erased)]
[…] remains […]
Nikias/Nikaios brought the value of the wine: [x] kar[sh]
3 sh(ekels) (Erased: 1 m{aah and a} h{alf})
1 on loan Nikias/Nikaios […]
30th of Thoth
[…]
24 zuz, 1 q(uarter)
√ Arbayya (= “The Arabian”): 4 logs
At 2 q(uarters)
√ Sosratos: 3 [logs] at 1 q(uarter), 1 m(aah and a) h(alf)
I: 12 logs
Entry I: 4 logs
Entry I: 6 logs
Entry I: 6 logs
√ Nikias/Nikaios: 1 ka, 1 sh(ekel) at [2] q(uarters) (Error For: 1 ka at 1 sh{ekel}, 2 q{uarters}); 2 q(uarters) remain (to be paid)
√ Judah: 12 logs at 1 sh(ekel), 3, q(Uarters) \2 q(Uarters) remain to be paid) Corrected From: 8 logs at 1 sh{ekel})
Entry I: 4 logs
√ Judah:1[+1+1] (=3) [log]s at 1 q(uarter), 1 m(aah and a) h(alf)
√ Shabbethai here: 4 logs
At 2 q(uarters)
...
[…] 3 for whe[a]t, 1 s(eah)
[…] 3, 1 m(aah)
[…] 3 for wheat, 1 s(eah)
[…] 2 q(uarters), 1 m(aah)
Account of the grain which I wrote [and] gave to Ab(i)hi:
Shelamzi(o)n from the aftergrowth of Zebadiah, wheat: 1 s(eah), 1 q(uarter)
Shabbethit daughter of (G)abri, wheat: 1 s(eah), 8 qabs and a) h(alf)
Arsinoe, daughter of J(o)hanan, wheat: 22 a(rdabs)
Entry Arsinow, barley: 15[+1] (=16) [q(abs)]
PN daughter of […] wheat […] mine: 19
From J(o)hanan (son of) J(o)ezer: 3 flagons; (from) Johanan the priest: 1 flagon
From Shabbethai (son of) Jashib: 2 flagons; from Nathn(a)i: 1 flagon
From Haggai (son of) Diophoros/Disyros: 2 flagons
Tasa daughter of Ḥanniah son of Cese: 3 a(rdabs), 1 a(rdabs) superior (wheat);
[…] and 1 m(aah) for her wages
Documents in the hand of (= possession of) Jonathan and me:
Settled/ paid off in our presence (Or: coming up in our presence: [= du us {from}]) Simeon son of Haggai
Son of Shumati: 1 document for win(e), 40 kas
Entry Simeon: 1 document for 12 karsh,
8 sh(ekels)
Entry Simeon: 1 document for 400 [zuz]
[Entry] Simeon: 1 document for 4 Cilicians mdlʾ 20
And 12 months mdlʾ
Obadiah (son of) Zaccur: 1 document for 120 zuz
Entry Obadiah (son of) Zaccur: 1 document for wheat, 10 a(rdabs)
Shabbethai (son of) Haggai (son of) Tutu: 1 document for his house […]
Entry Shabbethai (son of) Haggai: 1 document for wheat, 25 a(rdabs)
In his hand (= possession) the documents: J(o)hanan son of Dallui, gauarntor,
For 100 zuz
In the hand of [Jo]nathan: the wheat [o]f Iḥyi son of Shebaniah
In the hand of Jonathan: 6 string(s) of beads,
20 amulets(s) of silver and 2 hṭw of silver
In the hand of Nathan (= Jonathan?): the vessel of Meshullam son of Azgad 2 sh(eleks)
The vessel of mine is in the hand; the big vessel of ours is in his hand; the […]
Big is in his hand; the bowl is in his hand; the beautiful
Is in his hand; [ḥr]šʾ of […] wheat, a(rdabs) 2, 1 q(uarter)
Is in his hand; ḥršʾ of bronze wkrsʾ daughter of Ḥanniah […]
Is in his hand; ḥršʾ of ours is in the middle/midst
The wine which they put into a streached our (wine strainer) (=filtered) this year - Šlm[ ] the priest
Btmʾsr 21; vinegar 2 flagons (Erased?: [PN] the [p]riest)
Dallui (son of) Zeira (Or: the younger): 6 falgons; 1 vinegar
[…]
[…]
[…]
[…]
Sons of Idleh (son of) Abieti: 3 flagons
Obadiah (son of) Pachios/Pachis/Pachois/Pachos: 6 flagons; 1 vinegar
Their being (=total?): 100
Which I [se]nt/[brou]ght down to Edfu[…]
[…] 4 hyr […]
[…] plates - 2[+] big […]
Plates - 6 [sm]all […]
[…]
[…] 5 […]
[…] Herakieidies […]
[… +] 65, 1 q(uarter)
[…]
[…]
Moore, James D., Armand Rogers. 'Oxford Bodl. Ms. Heb. b. 5 (P).' DEAPS. 12 Dec, 2025. https://deaps.osu.edu/text_objects/12719. Accessed: 29 Jun, 2026.