Account of daily household expenses TM 1330Kharabet el Gerza (ancient Philadelphia)mid 3rd c. B.C.

Fragment of an account of small daily household expenses from the archive of Zenon at Philadelphia in the Fayum, mid-3rd century BC. It lists purchases of cheese, rocket, milk, bread, mustard, salt, trotters and water for the slave girls, and payments to the bath attendant, in obols and chalkoi.

In English machine translation

The recurring word "stēr[…]" is cut off and its meaning is uncertain. A chalkous was a small bronze unit, a fraction of an obol.

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 daily expenses). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.