List of comestibles
The comestibles were received from various people and may perhaps have been gifts to the dioiketes.
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 1307
List of foodstuffs received from various people TM 1307Kharabet el Gerza (ancient Philadelphia)mid 3rd c. 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 short list of foodstuffs, partridges, eels, honey and a ram, each entered under the name of the person who supplied it. It dates to the mid-3rd century BC and probably comes from Philadelphia in the Fayum, part of the Zenon archive.
In English machine translation
[recto]
1. ⟦From Moschos⟧
⟦10 partridges⟧
From Sosipolis:
eels
From Oloameus (?):
honey […]
a ram
From […]
[…]
[…]
[verso]
[… lines lost …]
The items may have been gifts to the dioiketes (the chief finance minister). The first entry, from Moschos, was struck out by the scribe.
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 comestibles). 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.4.59679
[r] α παρὰ Σωσιπόλιος ἐνχέλεις παρʼ Ολοαμέων μέλιτος τ[…] κριός παρὰ […] η[…] …[…] [v] [… ? lines lost …]