Aus der Buchhaltung des Weinmagazins im Edfu-Tempel

This volume is the first edition of an 8.80 m long demotic account papyrus - one of the longest extant papyri. P.Carlsberg 409 provides detailed information on the delivery and distribution of wine at Edfu in the year 132/131 BC, i.e. the 39th regnal year of Ptolemy VIII Euergetes II. The edition contains a palaeographical and philological commentary as well as a study of the administration and economy of the Horus temple at Edfu in Upper Egypt.