Memorandum about swineherds
A memorandum about swineherds.
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 1283
Memorandum about swineherds at Philadelphia requesting grain rations TM 1283Kharabet el Gerza (ancient Philadelphia)mid 3rd c. B.C.
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A memorandum from the Zenon archive listing seven swineherds pasturing at Philadelphia and two elsewhere in the Arsinoite nome. The writers remind the addressee of an agreement to provide a swineherd for the sacrificial animals and ask that their grain ration be issued. Mid 3rd century BC, probably Philadelphia.
In English machine translation
[column 1]
[…]
[…] in Philadelphia.
[… ? lines lost …]
[column 2]
Names of the swineherds who pasture (their herds) in Philadelphia:
Harmiysis, Panther, Horos,
Orenis, Onnophris, Pasis,
Pemenas, total 7.
And those in the Arsinoite nome:
Horos and Imouthes, total 2.
You agreed with us to give one swineherd for the 70 sacrificial animals (?),
and you also ordered […]
[…]
[…] tax (?) […]
[…] few […]
[…] in charge of the sacrificial animals
[…]
[…] from the […]
[…] us to wait.
Please therefore order that the grain ration be given to us
[…]
The letter 'ο' before 'sacrificial animals' may be the numeral 70 or a scribal slip. 'Hiereia' are animals intended for sacrifice, here likely pigs.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Memorandum about swineherds). 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.4.59652
[1] […]ων […]Φιλαδελφείαι. [… ? lines lost …] [2] ὀνόματα ὑοφορβῶν τῶν ἐν Φιλαδελφείαι νεμόντων Ἁρμιῦσις Πάνθηρος Ὧρος Ὀρῆνις Ὀννῶφρις Πᾶσις Πεμενᾶς γίνονται ζ καὶ οἱ τὰ ἐν Ἀρσινοίδι Ὧρος καὶ Ἰμούθης γίνονται β. συνέθου δὲ ἡμῖν δώσειν τοῖς ο ἱερείοις ἕνα ὑοφορβόν, συνέταξας δὲ κα…