List of corn allowances
A list of corn allowances to Apollonios' employees, slaves and sailors on his ships.
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 1305
List of grain rations for sailors and slave boys TM 1305Kharabet el Gerza (ancient Philadelphia)263 - 256 B.C.
The same ancient text or artifact as recorded by 3 records across 3 independent projects, recognised as one entity by its TM-Text identifier. View on Trismegistos →
A list of daily grain rations of one choinix each, issued to named sailors and slave boys. It belongs to the Zenon archive and probably concerns the staff of Apollonios, the finance minister, at Philadelphia in the Fayum in the mid-3rd century BC.
In English machine translation
To the sailors:
to Meniskos 1 choinix
to Eutychos 1 choinix
to Herakleides 1 choinix
to Theron 1 choinix
To the slave boys:
to Klados 1 choinix
to Pindaros 1 choinix
to Limnaios 1 choinix
to Sthenon 1 choinix
[…]
A choinix was a small dry measure, roughly a day's grain ration for one person. The word translated 'slave boys' (paidaria) can also mean young servants or attendants.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as List of corn allowance). 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.4.59677
ναυτικοῖς Μενίσκωι χοίνιξ α Εὐτύχωι χοίνιξ α Ἡρακλείδηι χοίνιξ α Θήρωνι χοίνιξ α παιδαρίοις Κλάδωι χοίνιξ α Πινδάρωι χοίνιξ α Λιμναίωι χοίνιξ α Σθένωνι χοίνιξ α [… ? lines lost …]