Account
Account of provisions, including castor oil, bread, wine, and vinegar
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 2536
Account of provisions including castor oil, bread, wine and vinegar TM 2536From the ArsinoiteII/I B.C.(?)
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Fragment of an account of provisions and expenses, listing castor oil, loaves of bread, vinegar, the price of wine and of jars, a sum for a revel, and the cost of transporting wine. It comes from the Arsinoite nome and dates to the Ptolemaic period.
In English machine translation
[A]
[…] 2 1/2
[…] 9
[…] 8, total 223
castor oil 10
loaves 5, total 238
20, loaves 5, it was 130
vinegar 1
for the price of wine 4,910
price of jars 240
for the revel (komos) 200
transport charge for wine 20
[…]
The museum record narrows the date to the 2nd-1st century BC (uncertain). The word komos usually means a festive procession or revel, so the 200 was probably spent on a celebration.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Abrechnung). 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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