Part of a list of stores
The earliest dated piece in the Cairo Zenon archive. It contains a list of goods, probably beloning to the stores of Apollonios and imported by his agents, - wine, honey, incense, myrrh and other products of Arabia.
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 1172
List of stores of wine, honey, incense and spices TM 1172Kharabet el Gerza (ancient Philadelphia)Summer of 261 B.C.
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A list of goods remaining in store from the Macedonian months Xandikos and Artemisios of year 25, including imported wines, honey, frankincense, myrrh, cassia, cinnamon and perfumed oils. It probably records stores of Apollonios, the finance minister, brought in by his agents, and is the earliest dated piece of the Zenon archive.
In English machine translation
[recto]
Year 25 […]
Of the goods brought in during Artemisios, I have the remainders from Xandikos and Artemisios:
Chian (wine), 7 (jars)
Thasian, 7
Peratic (?), 2
local, 10
sweet wine, 4 half-jars
honey, 1 small jar
Minaean frankincense, 4 talents
and Gerrhaean, 5 talents
myrrh, 1 talent
[and] cassia, […] kotylai
[and] alabaster jars […]
cinnamon, 15 kotylai
and alabaster jars, 5
marjoram oil, 10 kotylai
[and] alabaster jars, 2
[…] alabaster jars, 3
[…]
[verso]
[…]
The frankincense is labelled by origin: Minaean from southern Arabia and Gerrhaean from Gerrha on the Persian Gulf. The kotyle is a small liquid measure; 'peratic' wine probably means wine from across the border, perhaps Syria-Palestine.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Part of a list of stores). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
p.cair.zen.4.59536
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