List of provisions
A list of provisions coming from Hegemon. Telestes, who received some of the supplies was the owner of an estate in the Fayoum.
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 1309
List of provisions from Hegemon, partly for Telestes TM 1309Kharabet el Gerza (ancient Philadelphia)258 - 256 B.C.
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A list of provisions sent by Hegemon, including Chian and Thasian wine, sweet wine, honey, preserved fish and oil made from unripe olives, some items being marked for Telestes. It belongs to the Zenon archive and dates to 258-256 BC.
In English machine translation
[recto]
From Hegemon:
1. Chian (jars): 2
1. Thasian (jars): 2
Of sweet wine:
1. half-jars: 2
Of honey:
1. half-jar: 1
⟦1⟧ Of seasonal (salted fish): 1 jar
Of antakaios (sturgeon): 1 jar
Of unripe-olive oil:
half-jar: 1
Those marked in the margin to Telestes, and in addition to these
of sphen-fish: 1 jar
[verso]
… from Hegemon
[… 1 line lost …]
The place is given as Alexandria (?) in one record but as Philadelphia in the Fayum in another. Horaion, antakaios and sphen are kinds of preserved or salted fish, antakaios being a sturgeon from the Black Sea.
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 provisions). 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.4.59681
[r] παρʼ Ἡγήμονος α Χῖα β α Θάσια β γλυκέως α ἡμικάδια β μέλιτος α ἡμικάδιον α ὡραίου κεράμιον α ἀντακαίου κεράμιον α ἐλαίου ὀμφακίνου ἡμικάδιον α τὰ παρεπιγεγραμμένα Τελέστηι καὶ πρὸς τούτοις σφηνέως κεράμιον α [v] … παρʼ Ἡγήμονος [… 1 line lost …]