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p.cair.zen.4.59706 Mitte III v.Chr.

Account of daily expenses via HGV-meta

Account of daily travel expenses with list of nomes from Memphis to Hermopolis. An account of daily expenses apparently kept during a boat journey up the Nile, headed by a list of the nomes between Memphis and Hermopolis. It records purchases over several days (oil, bath fees, firewood, food such as radishes, honey, oysters, sea urchins, chickpeas and vegetables, and wine), with a final total divided into four shares. It comes from the Zenon archive, Philadelphia, mid-3rd century BC. machine translation

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Linked by Trismegistos ID TM 1333. Each record below describes this same artifact or text from a different angle.

Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 · Greek · Greek

Transcription

[r,ctr] υιει Μέμφιν Μεμφίτην Ἀφροδιτοπολίτην Ἀρσινοίτην Ἡρακλεοπολίτην Ὀξυρυγχίτην Κυνοπολίτην Ἑρμοπολίτην ιζ ἔλαιον[…] βαλανεῖ[…] ξύλα […] π[…]ρ[…] […] […] ιη σίτου ἡμιωβέλιον […] βαλανεῖ […] ῥαφάνια[…] […] μέλι […] ξύλα […] [… 1 line lost …] ιθ βαλανεῖ[…] ἅλες[…] κίκι […] ἔλαιον ὀβολοὶ γ 𐅵 ὄστρεα ὀβολὸς ἐχίνους ὀβολὸς κ[…] διώβολον ἐρέβινθοι ἡμιωβέλιον λάχανα ὀβολοῦ τέταρτον ξύλα ὀβολοῦ τέταρτον [r,ms] κϛ ὀβολοὶ γ 𐅵 [r,ctr] οἶνος δραχμὴ α γίνονται δραχμὴ α πεντώβολον μέρη δ ἑκάστωι ὀβολοὶ β 𐅵 δ [r,m] [v]

Translations (1)

EN AI · machine translation from the DDbDP edition (Claude Opus 5.5)
[recto, centre] […] son (?) Memphis ⟦and⟧ Memphite nome Aphroditopolite nome Arsinoite nome Herakleopolite nome Oxyrhynchite nome Kynopolite nome Hermopolite nome 17th: oil […] bath-man […] firewood […] […] […] […] 18th: grain, 1/2 obol […] bath-man […] radishes […] […] honey […] firewood […] [… 1 line lost …] 19th: bath-man […] salt […] castor oil […] oil, 3 1/2 obols oysters, 1 obol; sea urchins, 1 obol […], 2 obols; chickpeas, 1/2 obol vegetables, 1/4 obol; firewood, 1/4 obol [recto, margin] 26th (?): 3 1/2 obols [recto, centre] wine, 1 drachma; total 1 drachma 5 obols 4 shares, each 2 1/2 obols [and 1/4 (?)] [recto, margin] [verso]

Connections

Found at Kharabet el Gerza (ancient Philadelphia)

Cross-references (3)

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