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Daily household expense account including purchases for the Nekysia TM 1700unbekanntMitte III v.Chr.

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A daily household expense account listing small purchases of food, firewood and other items over the last days of a month, with running totals and remainders. It includes costs for flour bought for the Nekysia, a festival of the dead, and water for the theatre. It dates to the mid-3rd century BC, probably from the Zenon archive.

In English machine translation

[… lines lost …] firewood 2 chalkoi, peas 1 chalkous, silphium juice (?) 1 chalkous, total 1 drachma 1 obol; remainder 2 drachmas 5 1/2 obols 2 chalkoi. 23: firewood 2 chalkoi, lentils 1 chalkous, castor oil 1/2 obol, water for the theatre 1/2 obol, loaves 1/2 obol, eggs 2 chalkoi, 1 chalkous, brain and feet 1/2 obol. 24: […] total 2 1/2 obols 2 chalkoi; remainder 2 drachmas 2 1/2 obols. 25: figs 1/2 obol, for fine flour 1 drachma, chennia (small fish) 2 chalkoi, ⟦… 1/2 obol⟧, castor oil 2 chalkoi, total 1 drachma 1 obol; remainder 1 drachma 1/2 obol 2 chalkoi. 26: to the fuller for pillows 1 1/2 obols, to Alanos (?) 2 obols, figs 1/2 obol. 28: olive oil 1 obol 2 chalkoi, relish 1/2 obol 1 chalkous, silphium juice (?) 1 chalkous, firewood 1 chalkous, loaves 1/2 obol 2 chalkoi. 29: figs 1/2 obol, firewood 2 chalkoi. 27: to Theophilos, for the price of the fine flour bought for the Nekysia (festival of the dead) 4 obols, for spices 2 chalkoi, olive oil 1/2 obol, relish, which Dorion must collect, 2 1/2 obols, eggs 1 1/2 obols, honey 1/2 obol, a chous of wine 1 drachma 3 obols, to Melas 2 obols, lentils 2 chalkoi, silphium juice (?) 2 chalkoi, salt 2 chalkoi, spices 1 chalkous, firewood 1 chalkous, fine flour 2 chalkoi, chickpeas 2 chalkoi, loaves 2 chalkoi, total 2 drachmas 4 obols. 28: olive oil 1 obol 2 chalkoi, relish 1/2 obol 2 chalkoi, silphium juice (?) 1 chalkous, firewood 1 chalkous, loaves 1/2 obol 2 chalkoi, a wild sacrificial animal 5 drachmas, spices for sausages 2 chalkoi, total 5 drachmas 3 obols 1 chalkous. 29: loaves 1 obol 2 chalkoi, total 1 obol 2 chalkoi. 30: honey 1/2 obol, firewood 1 chalkous, loaves 1 1/2 obols 2 chalkoi, total 2 obols 2 chalkoi 1 chalkous. ⟦…⟧ Total 16 drachmas 5 1/2 obols 2 chalkoi. ⟦He overspends 8 drachmas 1 obol 1 chalkous⟧ Remaining 3 drachmas 5 1/2 obols.

Opos is taken here as silphium juice, a seasoning, though it may mean fig juice used as rennet. The days are not in strict order (27 follows 29), suggesting entries were added out of sequence.

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.

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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · Mitte III v.Chr.

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