One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 29015
Shopkeeper's account of sales of pitch, fish sauce, purple and other goods TM 29015Oxyrhynchosspätes II - frühes III
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Fragmentary account, perhaps kept by a shopkeeper, listing named customers with the goods they bought (pitch, fish sauce, purple dye, drugs, cedar oil, papyrus sheets) and the sums in drachmas and obols. From Oxyrhynchus, late 2nd to early 3rd century AD.
In English machine translation
[column 1]
[… lines lost …]
[column 2]
Of Varianus, for pitch […],
Of Eudaimon, for … 1 drachma,
Of Basileus, for fish sauce 3 obols,
Of Pausanias, for purple 4 drachmas 5 obols,
Of Nikanor, for … 4 obols,
Of Alexander, for … 2 obols,
[…] for drug(s) 2 drachmas 1 obol,
… for scraped (?) […],
[…] […],
[…] for fish sauce […],
[…] for a chest […],
[column 3]
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Of Theodoros, for […] 1 drachma,
Of Moros, for a ball 1 drachma 3 obols,
Of Sarapammon, for a small jar (?) 5 obols,
Of Hierax, for a small jar (?) 3 obols,
Of Ptolemaios, for … 1 obol,
Of Heraklas, for new … 1 drachma 1 obol,
Of Sarapammon, for papyrus sheets 5 drachmas 5 obols
[… 5 lines lost …]
[column 4]
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Of Anthestia, for pitch […],
Of Alexander, for a pole […],
Of Horion, for cedar oil […],
Of Ammonios, for cedar oil […],
Of Dioskoros, for drug(s) […],
Of Herakleides, for purple […],
[… 5 lines lost …]
Several commodity words are only partly legible (e.g. σω…ικ), and kellarion may mean a small jar or storage container. Garos is a fermented fish sauce.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Shopkeeper’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.
p.oxy.14.1727
[1] [… ? lines lost …] [2] Οὐαριανοῦ πίσσης[…], Εὐδαίμονος σω…ικ δραχμὴ α, Βασιλέως γάρου τριώβολον, Παυσανίου πορφύρας δραχμαὶ δ πεντώβολον, Νικάνορος σω…ικ τετρώβολον, Ἀλεξάνδρου πλ… διώβολον, […]…[…]… φαρμάκου δραχμαὶ β ὀβολὸς, …[…]… ψωκτοῦ […]…, […]…τελ […], […] γάρου […], [……