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Cook's account of meat supplied over a month TM 20767Oxyrhynchos183 or 215 CE

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A cook's account listing the meat and offal (tongues, kidneys, trotters, breasts, bellies) supplied day by day during the month Thoth of year 24, with earlier entries for late Mesore and the intercalary days. It comes from Oxyrhynchus and dates to AD 183 or 215.

In English machine translation

[recto] [column 1] Thoth 4, year 24: meat, 4 minas, 2 trotters, 1 tongue, 1 snout. 6th: 1 tongue-and-jowl. 11th: meat, 2 minas, 1 tongue, 2 kidneys. 12th: meat, 1 mina, 1 breast. 14th: meat, 2 minas, 1 breast. 16th: meat, 3 minas. 17th: meat, 2 minas, 1 tongue. 18th: 1 tongue. 21st: belly. [column 2] 22nd: belly, 2 kidneys. 23rd: meat, 2 minas, 1 belly, 2 trotters. 26th: 1 tongue. 30th: 1 breast. And before these, Mesore 18th: meat, 2 minas, 1 belly, 2 kidneys. 21st: 1 breast. 23rd: 1 tongue-and-jowl, 2 kidneys. 24th: 2 minas, 2 kidneys. 25th: to Tryphon 2 minas, 1 ear, 1 trotter, 2 kidneys. 29th: 2 minas, 2 trotters, 1 tongue. 2nd intercalary day: 1 tongue. 3rd: 1 breast. [verso] Account of a cook.

Year 24 belongs either to Commodus (AD 183) or, more probably, Caracalla (AD 215). The mina here is a weight of meat; the word rendered 'tongue-and-jowl' is a cut combining tongue and chin.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Monthly Meat Bill of a Cook). 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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Monthly Meat Bill of a Cook

Papyri.info — APIS (Advanced Papyrological Information System) — papyri · P.Penn. Museum inv. E02753 · 183 or 215 CE · Oxyrhynchos

Account of a cook, giving a list of different kinds of meat supplied during Thoth and the latter part of the month preceding. The twenthy-fourth year of an Emperor, who is more probably Caracalla (thus about 215 CE) than Commodus (thus 183 CE), is mentioned. 183 or 215 C.E.

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p.oxy.1.108

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · Oxyrhynchos

[r] [column 1] Θὼθ δ κδ ἔτους, κρέως μναῖ δ, ἄκρα β, γλῶσσα μία, ῥυγχίον α. ϛ, γλωσσοπωγώνιον. ια, κρέως μναῖ β, γλῶσσα μία, νεφρία β. ιβ, κρέως μνᾶ α, στέρνα μία. ιδ, κρέως μναῖ β, στέρνα α. ιϛ, κρέως μναῖ γ. ιζ, κρέως μναῖ β, γλῶσσα μία. ιη, γλῶσσα μία. κα, κοιλία. [column r] κ…