Account of Wine
Account, seemingly of the wine issued from the household store
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 2015
Fragment of an account of wine jars issued TM 2015Philadelphia (Arsinoites)IIIrd century B.C.
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A fragmentary account recording jars of wine issued, apparently from a household store, to various people including a secretary and workers receiving ration allowances. It mentions Zenon and dates in Tybi, Epeiph and Mesore, and comes from Philadelphia in the Arsinoite nome in the mid-3rd century BC.
In English machine translation
[...]
[...] Tybi 28, 8 drachmas, 1 jar
[...] to the secretary
[...] 19, 1 jar
[...] 1 jar
[...] total 2
[...] to those receiving rations (opsonion), of local (wine), jars
[...]
[...]
[...] of Epeiph 2 (or 4), of Zenon
[...] having ordered, 30 jars
[...] Mesore 30 [...] carried off
[...] 2 jars
[...] of Memphis, 1 jar
[...] Zenon
[...] 2 jars
[...] 1 jar
[...] 1 jar
[...] 1 jar
[...] 1 jar
The Zenon named is probably the well-known estate manager of the Zenon archive. 'Local' wine (epichorios) is distinguished from imported wine; opsonion was a cash or kind allowance paid with wages.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Fragment of a Wine Account). 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.1.117
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