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Account of daily travel expenses with list of nomes from Memphis to Hermopolis TM 1333Kharabet el Gerza (ancient Philadelphia)mid 3rd c. B.C.

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An account of daily expenses apparently kept during a boat journey up the Nile, headed by a list of the nomes between Memphis and Hermopolis. It records purchases over several days (oil, bath fees, firewood, food such as radishes, honey, oysters, sea urchins, chickpeas and vegetables, and wine), with a final total divided into four shares. It comes from the Zenon archive, Philadelphia, mid-3rd century BC.

In English machine translation

[recto, centre] […] son (?) Memphis ⟦and⟧ Memphite nome Aphroditopolite nome Arsinoite nome Herakleopolite nome Oxyrhynchite nome Kynopolite nome Hermopolite nome 17th: oil […] bath-man […] firewood […] […] […] […] 18th: grain, 1/2 obol […] bath-man […] radishes […] […] honey […] firewood […] [… 1 line lost …] 19th: bath-man […] salt […] castor oil […] oil, 3 1/2 obols oysters, 1 obol; sea urchins, 1 obol […], 2 obols; chickpeas, 1/2 obol vegetables, 1/4 obol; firewood, 1/4 obol [recto, margin] 26th (?): 3 1/2 obols [recto, centre] wine, 1 drachma; total 1 drachma 5 obols 4 shares, each 2 1/2 obols [and 1/4 (?)] [recto, margin] [verso]

The numbers 17, 18, 19 and 26 are days of the month. The papyrus also carries sketches of human figures, including a man or Apollo holding a lyre.

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.

Account of daily expenses

Papyri.info — APIS (Advanced Papyrological Information System) — papyri · JE51653 · mid 3rd c. B.C. · Kharabet el Gerza (ancient Philadelphia)

An account of daily expenses during a cruise. At the top is a list of the nomes between Memphis and Hermopolis; then comes an account of three days' expenses; and below is a further list of provisions, the cost of which is to be divided among four people probably the crew of the…

p.cair.zen.4.59706

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · Mitte III v.Chr. · Kharabet el Gerza (ancient Philadelphia)

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