Fragment of wine account
A fragment of a wine account.
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 1369
Fragment of an account of wine jars issued to workers TM 1369Kharabet 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 fragmentary account of jars of wine distributed to various workers and individuals, including hunters, a farmer, a stonemason (partly as wages), a ditch-digger and a fuller. It belongs to the Zenon archive from Philadelphia in the Fayum, mid 3rd century BC.
In English machine translation
[recto]
[column 1]
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[…] to the gazelle-hunter, 1 jar
[…] to the 3 hunters, 3 jars
[…] to Perdikkas and Theodotos, 2 jars
[…] to the farmer, 1 jar
[…] 1 jar
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[column 2]
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1 half-jar
To Diodoros the stonemason,
for his wages, 9 jars
To Menes the ditch-digger, 1 jar
Total 62 jars
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[verso]
[column 1]
[…] to Demetrios the fuller, 1 jar
To Antipatros, of wine, 10 jars
Write to Drakon so that he has 2 (?), 1 jar
Nechthemenis, 1 jar
To Amortaios so that he has 2 (?), 1 jar
[column 2]
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The unit is the keramion, a standard wine jar. The meaning of 'so that he has 2' on the verso is unclear.
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.4.59744
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