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p.cair.zen.4.59665 Mitte III v.Chr.
Specification for a mosaic floor via HGV-meta
Specification for mosaic floors in a bath-house. A building specification from mid-3rd century BC Philadelphia in the Fayum setting out how a contractor is to lay the mosaic floors of a bath-house. It describes the women's rotunda floor, with a black border, a spiral shell motif, another band and a central poppy, the rest filled with pebbles, and orders similar work in the vestibule by the men's rotunda. machine translation
The same text in other collections
Linked by Trismegistos ID
TM 1295.
Each record below describes this same artifact or text from a different angle.
- Specification for a mosaic floor HGV-meta Kharabet el Gerza (ancient PhiladeMitte III v.Chr.
- Specification for a mosaic floor APIS-papyrus Kharabet el Gerza (ancient Philademid 3rd c. B.C.
Inscriptions (1)
Inscription #1
· Greek
· Greek
Transcription
[…]γραφικὸν ἄνθος πήχεος πάντοθεν·
δοθήσεται δὲ τῶι ἐργολάβωι ει…α…
[…]ει δὲ ἐκ βασιλικοῦ παράδειγμα
καθʼ ὃ δεῖ γενέσθαι · τὸ δὲ
λοιπὸν πλάσει ἑξαχοινικῆι ψήφωι.
τοῦ δὲ γυναικείου θόλου τὸ ἔδαφος
ποιήσει θετὸν ἀπέχων ἀπὸ τῶν
πυέλων πῆχυν ἕνα καὶ παλαιστῶν
δύο καὶ περιθήσει ταινίαν μέλαιναν
ἔχων πλάτος δακτύλων δύο ,
θήσει δὲ καὶ κόχλον ναυτικὸν
ἔχων πλάτος δακτύλων δέκα
καὶ ταινίαν μίαν ἣ ἂν ἁρμόζηι
καὶ ἐν τῶι μέσωι μήκωνα πάντηι
πῆχυν ἕνα · τὸ δὲ λοιπὸν ψήφωι
ἑξαχοινικῶι πλάσει. θήσει δὲ καὶ
ἐν τῆι προστάδι τὴν πρὸς τῶι
ἀνδρείωι θόλωι τῆι αὐτῆι λέξει.
τὰ δὲ λοιπὰἐδάφη καταπλαστὰ
ὄντα καθομολογήσει π…[…]
[…]…απ…[…]
[… ? lines lost …]Translations (1)
[…] a painted (?) flower of one cubit on every side;
[there will be given] to the contractor […]
[…] from the royal (office?) a model
[according to] which it must be made ⟦which the contractor will make⟧; the
[rest] he will plaster with pebbles of six-choinix size.
Of the women's rotunda (tholos) the floor
he will make laid (in mosaic), keeping a distance from the
bathtubs of 1 cubit and
[2] palms, and he will put round it a black band
having a width of 2 fingers,
and he will also lay a nautical shell (spiral)
having a width of 10 fingers
[and] one band, whichever may suit,
[and] in the middle a poppy measuring in every direction
1 cubit; and the rest he will plaster with pebbles
of six-choinix size. He will also lay
in the vestibule the (floor) next to the
men's [rotunda] on the same terms.
The remaining floors, being plastered,
he will agree […]
[…]
[…]
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Cross-references (3)
- TM-Text 1295 primary
- DDbDP-Text p.cair.zen;4;59665 tier-1
- HGV-Text 1295 tier-1
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