Fragment of account of household wheat
A fragment of an account of household wheat, mentioning the festival which commemorated the assumption of kingship by the Ptolemaic dynasty .
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 1335
Fragment of an account of household wheat for breads and cakes TM 1335Kharabet el Gerza (ancient Philadelphia)mid 3rd c. B.C.
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A fragment of a household account recording wheat used for bread and cakes, some for a sacred table and some held by the cook. It dates to the mid 3rd century BC and probably comes from Philadelphia in the Arsinoite nome, from the Zenon archive.
In English machine translation
[…]
The cook has other […]
for the sacred table […]
two, 4 choinikes; leavened loaves, 2, 2 choinikes […]
two, 4 choinikes; nastoi (stuffed cakes) […]
of popana (sacrificial cakes), 1 choinix […]
Total of wheat […]
[…]
Nastoi and popana are kinds of cakes, the latter typically used in offerings. The museum description links the account to the festival commemorating the Ptolemies' accession, though this is not visible in the surviving lines.
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.
p.cair.zen.4.59708
[… ? lines lost …] ἄλλας ἔχει ὁ μάγειρος[…] ἐπὶ τράπεζαν ἱερὰν[…] δύο χοίνικες δ ζυμῖται β χοίνικες β […] δύο χοίνικες δ ναστοὶ […] ποπάνων χοίνιξ α […] γίνονται πυρῶν […] [… 2 lines lost …]