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Customs-type delivery list and letter of Apollonios to Serapammon about wedding supplies TM 29251unbekanntspätes II - III

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A sheet reused for two purposes: a short daybook recording deliveries of lentils, onions, wine and lupines on Mesore 28-30, and a letter from Apollonios to Serapammon asking him to buy and bring garlands, wine syrup, lentils, vegetables, treats for the children and Alexandrian cakes, apparently for a wedding. The address names Serapammon as contractor of the desert guard; late 2nd to 3rd century AD.

In English machine translation

[recto] Mesore 28 Philoxas, bringing in 2 artabas of lentils and the same, 2 artabas of onions Polydeukes, bringing in 6 jars of wine 29 Hermes 30 Psames, bringing in 1 artaba of lupines Horos, bringing in lupines, 2 donkeys, 6 artabas To Serapammon from Apollonios. See that you forget nothing: the garlands and the tablets (?), and buy a jar of boiled-down wine, and take so many kotylai of lentils that it may suffice for us, and the vegetables from Serenos, beets and other vegetables, and for the children chrystoumina (?) and other modest things, to hang up in the bridal chamber, and Alexandrian cakes […] […] Come down on the fourth day. So do not neglect the honey-wine, since Mynios needs it […] [verso] Deliver to Serapammon, contractor of the desert guard.

The 'nymphon' (bridal chamber) and the purchases suggest preparations for a wedding feast. 'Chrystoumina' is an obscure word, perhaps a kind of sweet or fruit; 'eremophylakia' was a desert-guard tax or service farmed out to contractors.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below. 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.lond.3.964

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · spätes II - III

[r] Μεσορὴ κη Φιλοξᾶς εἰσάγων φακοῦ ἀρτάβας β καὶ ὁ αὐτὸς κρομύου ἀρτάβαι β Πολυδεύκης εἰσάγων οἴνου κεράμια ϛ κθ Ἑρμῆς λ Ψάμες εἰσάγων θέρμων ἀρτάβην α Ὧρος εἰσάγων θέρμων ὄνους β ἀρτάβας ϛ Σεραπάμμωνι παρὰ Ἀπολλωνίου. βλέπε μὴ ἐπιλάθῃ μηδὲν τοὺς στεφάνους καὶ τὰ τάβλια καὶ ἀγόρ…