Account of wool and various articles
An account of wool and various articles. It may be part of a list of articles despatched by boat.
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 1401
Account of wool, clothing and various articles TM 1401Kharabet el Gerza (ancient Philadelphia)mid 3rd c. B.C.
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An account listing clothing, wool and nuts with their prices, totalling 134 drachmas, followed by notes on items packed in a bag and on quantities of worked wool. It comes from Philadelphia in the Fayum and dates to the mid 3rd century BC, part of the Zenon archive.
In English machine translation
Cloak, 54 drachmas
Tunic, 20
35 minas (of wool), at the rate of 5 minas for 4 drachmas, [28 drachmas]
Wool flock, 28 drachmas
Nuts, 2 artabas, 32
Total 134
To receive the goatskin bag (?) in which are the wool flock, 11 (?) pillows, a small tunic, a lunch basket.
Of worked wool there are 7 1/2 bundles, 75 rolls.
These came out clean at a loss of a quarter per mina.
In the same (bag) are the wool tufts.
The rate of the wool in line 3 is restored, and the reading 'ιτα' before 'pillows' is uncertain. It may belong to a list of goods sent by boat.
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 wool and various articles). 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.4.59776
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