List of Provisions
List of provisions for a journey, probably for one of Zenon's colleagues when travelling from Egypt to Syria by way of Pelousion
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 1908
List of provisions for a journey to Syria TM 1908Unknown place, Egypt(About) 259 B.C.
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A memorandum listing provisions to be assembled for someone travelling, including groats, local wine from the Heliopolite nome, honey, oil, vinegar, olives, salted fish and crushed lentils. The verso docket mentions Syria, and the list probably belongs to the Zenon archive, around 259 BC, for a journey from Egypt to Syria via Pelousion.
In English machine translation
[recto]
[… lines lost …]
travelling together and (if) he needs
also more flour,
to make up for him
5 artabas of groats.
Leave out (?) the price.
⟦Of foreign wine, which must be bought from Pelousion, to give 10 jars⟧
Of local wine from the Heliopolite nome
to bring here 10 jars.
Of honey a half-jar at 3 drachmas 3 obols.
Oil, a sufficient amount. Of vinegar 1 jar, 2 drachmas. Olives.
Salted fish of every kind and anchovy (?)
if there are any.
Crushed lentils.
[verso]
The things put together [for so-and-so].
When [he?] set out (?) […]
to Syria …
The scribe deleted an entry for foreign wine to be bought at Pelousion and replaced it with local Heliopolite wine. The word thrissa denotes a small fish, perhaps a kind of anchovy or shad.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as List of Provisions for a Journey). 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.mich.1.2
[r] [… ? lines lost …] συμπορευόμενοι καὶ χρείαν ἔχηι καὶ πλειόνων ἀλεύρων συνθεῖναι αὐτῶι χόνδρου ἀρτάβας ε διάλιπε τιμήν ἐπιχωρίου τοῦ ἐκ τοῦ Ἡλιοπολίτου προσενεγκεῖν ἐνταῦθα κεράμια ι μέλιτος ἡμικάδιον ἀνὰ δραχμὰς γ ὀβολοὺς γ ἔλαιον τὸ ἱκανόν ὄξους κεράμιον α δραχμὰς β ἐλαίας …