The article contains the edition and discussion of a rarely encountered form of petition (ꜥn-smy) from the Ptolemaic Fayum, which today is kept by the British Museum in London. The text was submitted by a lesonis of Soknebtunis to the chief of police in Mouchis. The document concerns a dispute between two priests from two different localities, Kerkeneith and Tebtunis, over agricultural lands and a harvest. The text is not only an addition to the small corpus of such petitions but also informs about juridical, economic, and religious life in the Fayum under the Ptolemies. It furthermore sheds light on business connections among members of various crocodile priesthoods in the Fayum.

The authors present two demotic ostraca from the Ashmolean Museum with instructions for computing Mercury's first and last evening and morning visibilities. The instructions are based on Babylonian systems A₁and A₂. They employ a mathematical formulation based on "elementary steps" that is not yet attested in Babylonia. As will be argued, the procedure shed new light on the role of native Egyptian scholars in the transfer of astral science from Babylonia to Egypt.

Demotic Ostracon Ashmolean Museum no. 28 (hereafter: O.Ashm.Dem. 28) is an early Roman-period pottery sherd from the Thebaid. It records a lease of a transport cart for hauling a harvest. Similar pieces are rare. There are only a few Demotic texts that concern the conveyance of mobile property in any form, not including animals or bridal gifts. The Greek and Coptic documentation relating to similar transactions is also sporadic. To this date, there are only two published texts, which are comparable to O.Ashm.Dem. 28, that is, well-preserved deeds providing a detailed description of a vehicle as well as regulations for the transaction. Both these documents stem from Aphrodito but are not related to each other directly. The first papyrus is a Greek LateAntique lease of a transport cart from the famous Dioskoros Archive (P.Cair.Masp. III 67303) dating to the 6th cent. AD. The second one is a Coptic sale of a threshing cart (P.Copt.Vat.Dor. 1) from the 7th cent. AD.

In the shadow of the pyramids of Giza, lie the tombs of the courtiers and officials of the kings buried in the far greater structures. These men and women were the ones responsible for building the pyramids: the architects, military men, priests, and high-ranking state administrators. The latter were the ones who ran the country and were in charge of making sure that its finances were healthy enough to construct these monumental royal tombs that would, they hoped, outlast eternity.

This paper revisits the location of Mouchis, a village in the division of Polemon in the Fayum, whose exact whereabouts have been the subject of some debate. In this connection, the toponym's development from Demotic and Greek to Coptic and Arabic is reconsidered. Additionally, the paper provides an overview of the settlement, which was an important regional administrative and economic centre. The article also discusses the etymology and background of one of the local crocodile gods of Mouchis, Sokonporchnoubis, attested in at least four documents, which partly come from the site in question or its vicinity.