Written on both sides in hieratic, the papyrus contains various annotations, mainly of administrative nature, related to the management of the more practical aspects of the life in the village. The entries – grouped by day, month, season and year of the reign of the pharaoh, register the goods delivered, as well as the names of the suppliers. The goods include ointment, cloths for horses, chariot ornaments, vases, sticks, whips, and firewood. The document also includes receipts concerning the redistribution of grain.
Year 5, first month of the season of the Emergence, day 30: on this day, distribution of the grain. […]
That makes 30 bags of wheat in the year 6. I put pressure on him to make him pay in year 7, fourth month of the season of the Inundation, the day 10.
He gave me a female donkey with its filly; he paid 80 deben of copper for them.
But I said to him: “This is not fair!” Then he said to me; “I will give you 10 deben of copper to pay you off!”
