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List of gifts left at Ptolemais during Zenon's journey TM 1701Ptolemais? (Palästina)März - Apr. 258 v.Chr.

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A list from the Zenon archive of gifts (xenia) left behind at Ptolemais when Zenon sent goods ahead to Pelusion, to be accounted for by Ariston. It lists wines, preserved fish, game meat, figs, honey, nuts, dates, incense and other goods, plus items and livestock received from named individuals, around March-April 258 BC.

In English machine translation

[column 1] The following are the gifts left behind at Ptolemais at the time of Zenon's advance dispatch to Pelusion, for which an account must be obtained from Ariston: Chian wine, 2 Thasian, 1 wasp-fish (?), jar half-empty, 1 seasonal fish (horaion), jar half-empty, 1 sheatfish in a banotos (?) vessel, half-full, 1 sturgeon or jaw-pieces, jar half-empty, 1 tunny pieces (kybia), stamnos half-full, 1 deer meat, basket 1 wild boar belly-meat, basket 1 elbyneis 5 dried figs, jar half-full, 1 Syrian honey [column 2] […] half-kados, half-full, 1 […] Syrian, in a stamnos, […] 1 kotyle sweet wine, half-kados 1 nuts in a small bag dates, basket half-full, 1 pine cones, 2 choinikes frankincense from the chest-store, small bag half-full, 1 […] jar 1 […] […] […] half-full […] [column 3] From Balmalakos […] of Zenon's household: Sicilian salt fish, bikion […] rose oil, 1, 4 kotylai From Mattanit[…] son of Tibelos: […] 5 […] 90 From Peisikles: […] 2 […] 5 […] jar […] 5 […] 2 shaggy he-goats 50 shaggy rams 25 smooth 25 From Dionysodoros: honey, 20 chabitia gaunakes (woollen cloak), 1 walking sticks 5

Ptolemais is Ptolemais-Akko in Palestine, visited by Zenon on his Syrian journey; the place is marked uncertain. Several vessel and fish names (banotos, chabitia, elbyneis) have no exact English equivalent.

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 · März - Apr. 258 v.Chr. · Ptolemais? (Palästina)

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