Account of wine-jars
An account of wine-jars.
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 1368
Account of wine jars, pitched and unpitched TM 1368Kharabet el Gerza (ancient Philadelphia)mid 3rd c. B.C.
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A short account of wine jars from the Zenon archive at Philadelphia in the Fayum, mid 3rd century BC. Of 190 jars, 159 were filled and 31 remained, and it asks for a reckoning of unpitched and pitched jars, the pitch, and the jars used up.
In English machine translation
[…] were […] 190 banotoi (jars),
of which (wine) was poured into 159, remainder 31.
(Send?) the account of the unpitched jars
and of the pitched one and of the pitch
and of those used up
inside, and of the rest, (state) that the empty ones remain.
Banotoi are a type of jar; 'unpitched' and 'pitched' refer to the coating of jars with pitch to make them watertight for wine. The last lines are syntactically difficult and their rendering is tentative.
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 wine - jars). 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.4.59743
[…]θησαν βανωτοὶ ρϙ ἀφʼ ὧν κατεχύθη εἰς ρνθ λοιποὶ λα τὸν λόγον τῶν ἀκωνήτων κεραμίων καὶ τοῦ κεκωνημένου καὶ τῆς πίσσης καὶ τῶν ἐξανηλωμένων ἔσω, ὧν δὲ τὸν κενὸν περιεῖναι.