Home › Spine › TM 1334
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 1334

Account of household wheat, including provisions for guests at the Basileia TM 1334Kharabet el Gerza (ancient Philadelphia)mid 3rd c. B.C.

The same ancient text or artifact as recorded by 3 records across 3 independent projects, recognised as one entity by its TM-Text identifier. View on Trismegistos →

A fragment of a daily household account of wheat, recording rations for slaves and a prisoner Demetrios and the flour used for bread and cakes. On the 8th it records extra wheat for the table of guests invited to the Basileia, the festival of the Ptolemaic kingship. It dates to the mid 3rd century BC, probably from Philadelphia in the Fayum.

In English machine translation

[recto] […] of these ⟦…⟧ ⟦and⟧ the ration for the slaves, with the addition of Demetrios the prisoner, from the 3rd to the 6th, per day 1 choinix, total 4 choinikes; total 1/2 (artaba) [9] choinikes of purified (wheat) with flat-cakes 9 choinikes, 1/2, total 1/4 (artaba) 9 choinikes total of wheat 1 artaba 8 choinikes; remainder 12 1/2 1/4 artabas 1 1/2 choinikes 7th: from the account of wheat 12 1/2 1/4 artabas 1 1/2 choinikes, of which of unsifted wheat 1/2 artaba 6 choinikes of purified 7 1/2 choinikes, total 1/4 (artaba) 5 choinikes total of wheat 1 artaba 1 choinix; remainder 11 1/2 1/4 artabas 1/2 choinix [8th]: from the account of wheat 11 1/2 1/4 artabas 1/2 choinix, of which ⟦…⟧ of unsifted wheat, with the addition of […] 1 1/2 choinikes, total 1/2 (artaba) 6 1/2 choinikes of purified, for the table for those invited to the Basileia, 1/2 1/4 (artaba) 7 choinikes, total 1 1/2 1/4 artabas 4 choinikes for sacrificial-meat (cakes?) […] 2 choinikes, total 4 choinikes for unbaked (?) flat cakes 2 choinikes, total 4 choinikes small cakes […] 6 choinikes, total 1/4 (artaba) 2 choinikes sesame cakes […] 2 choinikes, total [4] choinikes […] choinikes [verso] […]

The Basileia was a festival commemorating the Ptolemaic accession to kingship. Fractions of the artaba (1/2, 1/4) and choinikes are combined in the original reckoning; 'unsifted' (autopyros) and 'purified' wheat refer to grades of flour.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Fragment of account of household wheat). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.

APIS-papyrus Full record →

Fragment of account of household wheat

Papyri.info — APIS (Advanced Papyrological Information System) — papyri · JE51660 · mid 3rd c. B.C. · Kharabet el Gerza (ancient Philadelphia)

A fragment of an account of household wheat. An interesting detail is the provision made for guests invited to dinner on the occasion of the festival which commemorated the assumption of kingship by the Ptolemaic dynasty.

DDbDP-text Full record →

p.cair.zen.4.59707

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · Mitte III v.Chr. · Philadelphia? (Arsinoites)

[r] […]τούτων ἡ ταγὴ τοῖς σώμασιν προσκειμένου Δημητρίου δεσμώτου ἀπὸ γ ἕως ϛ τῆς ἡμέρας χοίνιξ α γίνονται χοίνικες δ γίνονται 𐅵 χοίνικες θ καθαρῶν σὺν λαγάνοις χοίνικες θ 𐅵 γίνεται δ χοίνικες θ γίνονται πυρῶν ἀρτάβη α χοίνικες η λοιπαὶ ιβ 𐅵 δ χοίνιξ α 𐅵 ζ ἐκ λόγου πυρῶν ἀρτάβαι …