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An account of expenses from the Zenon archive, recording money received from Kallon for gifts brought to King Ptolemy II for the sacrifice at the Arsinoeia festival. It lists payments to workmen for unloading cages from boats, carrying dead wild boars and barley, a travel allowance to Ktesias, and a butcher's fee, in Mesore of year 36 (250 BC).
The Arsinoeia was the festival of the deified queen Arsinoe II; xenia were hospitality gifts presented to the king. The word galeagra, usually a cage or trap, here apparently refers to animal cages, perhaps for the wild boars.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below. It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
[1] ἔτουςλϛ, μηνὸς Μεσορή. ἔχω παρὰ Κάλλωνος εἰς τὰ ξένια τὰ καταγόμενα τῶι βασιλεῖ εἰς τὴν θυσίαν τῶν Ἀρσινοείων εἰς ἀνήλωμα ἀργυρίου δραχμὰς κϛ καὶ χαλκοῦ δραχμὰς ιδ ἀπὸ τούτου ἐργάταις τοῖς τὰς γαλεάγρας ἄρασι οὔσας ε ἀπὸ τῶν πλοίων οὗ συνέταξεν Ἀπολλώνιος εἰς τὸν […]α δραχμαὶ…
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