Fragment of wine account
A fragment of a wine account, giving some details about the price of Egyptian wine.
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 1363
Fragment of an account of wine jars sold TM 1363Kharabet el Gerza (ancient Philadelphia)mid 3rd c. B.C.
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Fragment of an account of wine jars delivered to the writer, noting jars left unsold and the prices of those sold. Sixteen jars fetched 6 1/2 drachmas each and thirty fetched 6 drachmas each, a total of 284 drachmas. It belongs to the Zenon archive, mid-3rd century BC, probably from Philadelphia in the Fayum.
In English machine translation
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[…] brought to us, 49 jars of wine, (of which) […]
[…] unsold, 3 jars, and […] the ones sold
[…] 16 at 6 1/2 drachmas each, 104 drachmas; 30 at 6 drachmas each, 180 drachmas; total 284 drachmas
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The figures add up: 16 jars plus 30 sold plus 3 unsold make 49 jars. The obol sign read as a triobol gives the price of 6 1/2 drachmas per jar.
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 wine account). 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.4.59738
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