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A short account listing quantities of coloured materials, probably dyes or dyed wool, by weight (one mina each, one talent of the myrrh colour), followed by the prices of three of them. It comes from Oxyrhynchus and dates to the 2nd or early 3rd century AD.
The colour terms (sappheirinon, marinon, kallainon, tyrinon, phlogeinon, smyrnaia) have no exact English equivalents and may refer to dyes or to dyed wool. The opening line is damaged and partly deleted.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Account of Colours). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
[msup] … […] ομενος [ctr] σαπφείριον μνᾶν ὁλκήν, μαρῖνον μνᾶν ὁλκήν, καλλάινον μνᾶν ὁλκήν, τυρινὸν μνᾶν ὁλκήν, φλόγεινον μνᾶν ὁλκήν, σμυρναίαν τάλαντον ὁλκήν, τιμῆς σαπφείριον δραχμαὶ ιϛ , τιμῆς μαρῖνον δραχμαὶ δ, τιμῆς καλλάινον δραχμαὶ β τετρώβολον.
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