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Account of the baker Kalasiris for bread and flour TM 21960Oxyrhynchos

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An account kept by the baker Kalasiris listing bread, cakes and fine flour supplied on successive days, with prices in denarii and drachmas and a total of 46 1/4 denarii. It comes from Oxyrhynchus.

In English machine translation

[recto] Account of the baker Kalasiris. 5th: 5 large loaves, 5 denarii; 20 pairs of kapyria (crisp loaves), 3 denarii; 1 measure of fine flour for the […]; cakes, 3 denarii. 6th: 1 measure of fine flour […] 7th: 40 rations (?), 11 denarii 2 drachmas; 40 large silignia (wheat loaves), ⟦denarii⟧ 5 denarii 3 drachmas; 20 pairs of small silignia, 3 denarii; 2 measures of fine flour, 6 denarii. Total together, 46 1/4 denarii. [verso] […] eighty-four 1/4.

Kapyria and silignia are kinds of bread (crisp loaves and loaves of fine wheat) with no exact English equivalent; the numbers 5, 6 and 7 at the start of entries are probably days of the month. The verso note is obscure.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Baker’s 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.

DDbDP-text Full record →

p.oxy.14.1655

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

[r] λόγος ἀρτοκόπου Καλασίριος. ε, ἄρτων μεγάλων ε δηνάρια ε, καπυρίων ζευγῶν κ δηνάρια γ, σεμιδάλεως μέτρον α εἰς τὴν τ…[…], πλακούντων δηνάρια γ. ϛ, σεμιδάλεως μέτρον α καλεωτιδες[…] ζ, μερικῶν μ δηνάρια ια δραχμαὶ β, σιλιγνίων μεγάλων μ δηνάρια ε δραχμαὶ γ, σιλιγνίων μικρῶν ζε…