List of provisions
A list of provisions.
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 1311
List of provisions including wine, flour and a sacrificial calf TM 1311Kharabet el Gerza (ancient Philadelphia)263 - 256 B.C.
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A fragmentary list of provisions from the Zenon archive, recording flour, Chian and local wine, fish, vegetables and a calf for sacrifice. It dates to about 263-256 BC and comes from Philadelphia in the Fayum.
In English machine translation
[…]
fine wheat flour (semidalis), […] artabas
wheat meal, 2 artabas
Chian wine, 2 jars
old local wine, 2 jars
[…]
[…] 10
salted fish
vegetables
for sacrifice, 1 calf
The jar (keramion) was a standard wine container of variable capacity. The provisions, including a calf for sacrifice, may have been for a festival or a visit.
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.4.59683
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