Account of servants' keep
An account of servants' keep, covering a period of six or at least four months, during which the party was probably travelling, not stationary at Ptolemais.
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 1325
Account of servants' keep: meal, wood and wine TM 1325Kharabet el Gerza (ancient Philadelphia)260 - 258 B.C.
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A fragmentary account from the Zenon archive recording food, fuel, bath money, small cash allowances and wine issued to slaves and servants, partly at Ptolemais. It dates to 260-258 BC and comes from Philadelphia in the Fayum.
In English machine translation
[recto]
[column 1]
[…]
[…]
[column 2]
barley-meal and baked bread (?) of the grain spent on the slaves, apart from what wheat was given to the rest, 60 artabas, at 1 drachma 3 obols the artaba, total 90 drachmas.
And wood was bought for the slaves to boil a pot … 4, 6 drachmas.
For the bath for the boys […]
[…]
[column 3]
⟦from⟧ 16
from Ptolemais
of barley-meal 4 artabas ⟦…⟧
at 3 drachmas, total 12 drachmas.
To Demetrios 1 obol
to Ariston 1 obol
to Nikanor 1 obol
to Menippos 1 obol
to Karos ⟦…⟧ 1 obol
to Glauke 1 obol
to Harmatios 1/2 obol 1/4 obol
to Phila 1/2 obol 1/4 obol
to the slaves with Kr…os …
[…]
[verso]
[column 1]
Account of wine.
In Ptolemais there were
salousia […] …
and kormoi […]
Of these were spent:
while Apollonios was present, 4;
and for the boys there has been spent, sour wine having been provided, per month 2 salousia, and for [4] months, total 8 salousia;
and for the slave-girls there has been spent of sour wine … 1 kormos, 3 salousia
[…]
[column 2]
boys …[…]
six months (?) […]
at … drachmas 1/2 obol […]
and another […]
and concerning […]
and of the […]
and boys […]
[…]
Salousia and kormoi are wine-jar measures without exact English equivalents. The account covers several months during which the party was probably travelling; Apollonios is likely the dioiketes, Zenon's employer.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Account of servants’ keep). 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.4.59698
[r] [1] […]ντα [… ? lines lost …] [2] ἄλφιτα καὶ πεπτὰ σῖτα τοῦ ἀνηλωμένου εἰς τὰ σώματα, χωρὶς οἷς ἐδίδοτο πυρὸς τῶν λοιπῶν, ἀρτάβαι ξ τῆς ἀρτάβης δραχμὴ α τριώβολον γίνονται δραχμαὶ ϙ καὶ ξύλα ἠγοράσθη εἰς τὰ σώματα ὥστε χύτραν ἕψειν … δ δραχμῶν ϛ εἰς βαλανεῖον τοῖς παιδαρίοις …