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Daily account of food expenses TM 218345unbekannt2. Hälfte II v.Chr.

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A fragmentary daily household expense account listing small purchases of food such as bread, figs, beans, oil, leeks, lettuce, grapes and relish, with amounts against days of the month. It also notes a payment to Hermias for the bath and an outlay for a sacrifice. It dates to the second half of the 2nd century BC.

In English machine translation

[column i] […] […] 200 (?) […] […] […] […] […] […] 100 […] 100 […] 900 […] 600 […] 210 […] … […] 30 […] 5 […]… […] 5 […] 5 […] 5 […] [column ii] 20: bread … 21: beans 5 olive oil 80 figs 5 blackberries (?) 15 24: leeks 5 25: relish 20 figs 5 26: figs 5 27: bread 200 28: grapes 20 lettuce 5 29: figs 5 30: bread 200 1: lettuces 5 figs 5 relish 25 olive oil 60 figs 5 Total …[…] [column iii] 3: …[…] 4: …[…] …[…] …[…] 5: […] 6: […] 7: …[…] …[…] Beginning of figs Expenditure (?) 8: bread […] Paid to Hermias for the bath[house] 9: for a sacrifice wine […] olive oil …[…] 10: for …[…] bread […] [… ? lines lost …]

The numbers at line starts are days of the month; the figures after items are sums of money, probably copper drachmas. 'Relish' renders opson, any food eaten with bread, often fish; 'bata' is taken here as blackberries, which is uncertain.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Ausgaben). 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.koeln.13.526

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 2. Hälfte II v.Chr.

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Ausgaben

Papyri.info — HGV (Heidelberger Gesamtverzeichnis) — metadata · P.Köln. inv. 20357 Verso · 2. Hälfte II v.Chr. · unbekannt