Account ca.September-November 254 BC
Account for bricks for building works at Philadelphia which were under the superintendence of Zenon; very large total of bricks in line 7
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Account of bricks issued for building works at Philadelphia TM 1537Philadelphia (Arsinoites)254 BCE
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An account of bricks issued day by day for building works at Philadelphia in the Fayum, in 254 BC, from the archive of Zenon. Bricks went to staircases, bath-houses, the palace, the Arsinoeion and Demetrion shrines, granaries and animal mangers; a short money account for wine and wheat is included.
In English machine translation
[1]
[…]
for the staircase […]
22: likewise for the staircase 1,500
23: for the same 500
for the royal gateway on the north […]
26: another staircase for the bath-house […]
for the old bath-house, a cistern […]
Total 15,840
Mesore 2: for the wall that was pulled down in the palace 500
and for the doors of the tow-store 60
3: through Theopompos, for the slave Apollonios ⟦and for the remaining staircases⟧ 1,500
4: for the Arsinoeion 440
[5: more] for the Arsinoeion 600
[…]
[2]
[…]
[…] of the persea trees 30
6: […] of the baker 40
for the Demetrion 1,050
7: for the granary of the bulls 450
for the mangers of the bulls 150
9: for the mangers of the bulls 700
13: for the mangers of the donkeys 30
[…] for the shadoof in the old bath-house 500
To Demokrates 4,120
28: for the embankment of the road 1,800
29: for the gateway, to block it up 140
for the persea tree by the Demetrion 11
for the gateway of the entrance 22
Phaophi: for the Demetrion 1,500
for the persea trees 60
[3]
[…]
Total 37,472. Total 60,402
Account of money
Mesore 27: I have received 2 jars of wine at 7 drachmas each, total 14; and 5 artabas of wheat at 1 drachma 1 obol each, total 5 drachmas 5 obols; through the bank 8 drachmas 1 obol; total 28 drachmas.
After the account:
27: for the mangers of the bulls 1,400, through Chaieapis
28: for the same 600
and for the property of Dikaios, through Zenon, 800, through Chaieapis
and for the bakery 40
and for the new bath-house 2,500, through Eth[…]
Total 5,340
The numbers count bricks, not money, except in the short money account. The kelоneion is a shadoof (water-lifting device).
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Account ca.September-November 254 BC). 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.col.3.39
p.lond.7.1974
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