One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 1427
Account of barley fodder for animals of Tobias and Artemidoros TM 1427Philadelphia259 BC?
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A fragmentary daily account of barley rations issued as fodder to horses, donkeys, a foal, a gelding, a mule and a camel, including animals belonging to the people of Tobias and of Artemidoros. It belongs to the Zenon archive and probably dates to 259 BC, when Zenon travelled in Palestine.
In English machine translation
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[…] and to a donkey […]
[to those from To]bias […]
[…] to 2 [donkeys] 8 choinikes,
[…]
[…] to 3 [hor]ses
[…] 4 choinikes
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[…] to each […] choinikes
[…] and to 2 donkeys, to each 10 choinikes […]
to a riding horse, dinner […]
[…] 4 choinikes […]
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[to those from A]r[temidoros]
to a horse and a donkey 10 choinikes,
to those from Tobias, to 3 horses
[…] and 2 donkeys 8 choinikes,
[…] to a foal 6 choinikes,
[…] to a [riding horse] 9 choinikes,
[…] and to the gelding, to each 4 choinikes, total 8 choinikes,
to a camel 6 choinikes and to a donkey 6 choinikes,
total 1 1/2 artabas 8 choinikes.
[To those from Ar]temidoros, to a horse
[and a donkey …] choinikes, to a riding horse 12 choinikes,
[…] to a gelding and a mule,
to each 4 choinikes, total 8 choinikes, to a camel 6 choinikes,
total 1/2 4 choinikes 6.
⟦[…] 1 artaba 2 choinikes⟧
to a riding horse 12 choinikes,
[…] […] choinikes, to a gelding 4 choinikes,
to a mule 4 choinikes, to those from
Artemidoros, to a horse and a donkey
[…] choinikes, to a camel 6 choinikes, total 1 artaba 2 choinikes.
[With the remain]ing 1 1/2 artabas
[total 2 1/2 artabas 2 choinikes]; grand total 8 1/2 artabas 4 choinikes.
20th. To a riding horse 9 choinikes of barley,
to the foal 6 choinikes of barley,
to those from Artemidoros, to a horse
and a donkey 10 choinikes of barley, to a mule 4 choinikes,
to a camel 6 choinikes.
The records disagree on place: Palestine (where the animals were fed) versus Philadelphia (where the Zenon archive was found). Tobias is probably the Transjordanian chieftain known from Zenon's correspondence; the choinix is a small dry measure, a fraction of an artaba.
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 barley). 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.5.59802
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