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List of goods deposited in a temple with the priest Patous, with a wheat account TM 250unbekannt18. Nov. 139 v.Chr.

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A list of household goods, including chests, lampstands, myrrh, and baskets of documents and books, deposited for safekeeping with the priest Patous in a temple, followed by a short note of wheat handed over by Harekysis. It belongs to the family archive of the cavalryman Dryton and dates to November 139 BC, probably at Pathyris.

In English machine translation

Year 32, Phaophi 23. We deposited in the temple with Patous the priest: 3 boxes, another small one, two chests, a sealed jar of resin, a basin, 2 sealed small boxes (?), a stand (?), 2 iron lampstands, a lunch-basket (?), boxwood bed legs, 2 Attic flasks containing myrrh, a large wooden chest full of myrrh, 2 baskets containing accounts and allotment documents (?) and reading books and boxwood tablets. The things from the city: a small box (?) in which are 6 boxwood tablets, of which 4 are boxwood of foreign wood, a lampstand base, […] in which are 2 small boxes (?) of Parian marble. Account of wheat: from Pharmouthi of year 31 to Phaophi of year 32 Harekysis also handed over 30 1/2 artabas of wheat in all.

Several object terms (mostion, epistaton, aristophoron, moion) are rare and their translations are approximate; 'klēr' is abbreviated and may refer to allotment (klēros) documents. The account may have been written by Esthladas, Dryton's son.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Greek list of temple goods and account written by ?Esthladas). 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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p.dryton.1.37

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 18. Nov. 139 v.Chr.

ἔτους λβ Φαῶφι κγ παρεθέμεθα ἐν ἱερῶι παρὰ Πατοῦτι ἱερεῖ· γλωσσόκομα γ, ἄλλο μικρὸν, κίσται δύο, βῖκος ἐσφραγισμένος ῥητίνης, λεκάνη, μώστια β ἐσφραφισμένα ἐπίστατον, λυχνίαι β σιδηραῖ, ἀριστοφόρον, πόδες κλίνης πύξινοι, ἀσφαλιῶνες β Ἀττικοὶ ἐν οἷς ζμύρνα, κίστη μεγάλη ξυλίνη μεσ…