Fragment of a letter or memorandum
A fragment of a letter or memorandum.
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 1276
Report on hay accounts, moving mares and feeding foals TM 1276Kharabet el Gerza (ancient Philadelphia)mid 3rd c. B.C.
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Fragment of a letter or memorandum from the Zenon archive, written at Philadelphia in the Fayum in the mid-3rd century BC. The writer reports settling accounts with someone who still owed bundles of hay, plans to move the mares to the Iseion and leave the hay for the sheep, and describes the barley rations given to three foals.
In English machine translation
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[…] I settled accounts with him, and he still owed 6,840 bundles of two minas each.
So I have decided to move the mares to the Iseion on the 30th, and to leave the existing hay for the sheep. I have also sent you the letter from him.
The 3 foals are in Philadelphia under care, and we are feeding the chestnut 6 choinikes of barley, the dark-grey one 4 choinikes, and the one beside […]
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The bundles are described as "two-mina" bundles, meaning each weighed about two minas. The Iseion is a sanctuary of Isis, here apparently a place with pasture or stabling.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Fragment of letter or memornadum). 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.4.59645
[… ? lines lost …] εις συν…ωμεν διελογισάμην πρὸς αὐτὸν καὶ προσωφείλησεν δέσμας διμναίους Ϛωμ. διέγνωκα οὖν μεταγαγεῖν τὰς ἵππους ἐπὶ τὸ Ἰσιεῖον τῆι λ, τὸν δὲ ὑπάρχοντα χόρτον ὑπολειπέσθαι τοῖς προβάτοις. ἀπέσταλκα δέ σοι καὶ τὴν παρʼ αὐτοῦ ἐπιστολήν. οἱ δὲ γ πῶλοί εἰσιν ἐν Φιλα…