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A fragmentary letter or note followed by a list of miscellaneous goods being sent, including a bread grill, a couch, kid-skins, fetters, scrap iron, a deer's head, a wild ass's hide, boar-skin soles and baskets of dates from Drimylos and Damon. It belongs to the Zenon archive from Philadelphia in the Fayum, mid 3rd century BC.
The opening lines of column 1 probably formed a short covering letter; the entries in the list appear to have been checked off by the recipient. 'Mys' may be a personal name, here in the genitive.
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 goods). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
The first five lines of column 1 probably formed a letter concerning the despatch of a very mixed lot of goods, of which a list was subjoined. The entries have been checked in the usual way, probably by the recipient. Some of the articles may have come from abroad, such as the …
[1] […]γράψας […]αι ειστ […]σθαι […] τοῖς Μυὸς […] […]α […]ιβ […]β […]α [2] ἐσχάρα σιδηρᾶ ἀρτοπτρὶς α κλίνη μαλακὴ α ἐριφέαι ἀργαὶ συνδεδεμέναι, πεδῶν ζεύγη β, σίδηρος παλαιὸς ἀπὸ τροχῶν, κίστη κενή, ἐλάφου κεφαλὴ α, ὀναγρίου δέρμα, συάγρεια πέλματα ιγ Δριμύλου σφυρίδες φοινίκων …
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