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A daily household account of small purchases over five consecutive days (the 18th to the 22nd of an unnamed month), recording spending on wine, bread, relish, radish oil and bath fees. It dates to the 3rd century AD.
Opson means anything eaten with bread, such as fish or vegetables, here rendered 'relish'; psomia are small pieces or rolls of bread. The word teiphasōn in line 9 is obscure and left untranslated.
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 Provisions). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
ιη οἴνου δραχμαὶ ζ ὄψους δραχμὴ α ὀβολὸς ψωμίων δραχμὴ α ὀβολὸς ιθ ψωμίων δραχμὴ α ὀβολὸς εἰς βαλανεῖονὀβολοῦ τέταρτον οἴνου δραχμὴ ϛ διώβολον ὄψους ὀβολοὶ α δ ψωμίων δραχμαὶ δ ὀβολὸς ἐλαίου ῥαφανίνου δραχμαὶ ε τὸ πρὸ ἐμῶν τειφασων[…] κ ὄψους ὀβολὸς α δ εἰς βαλανεῖον ὀβολοῦ τέταρ…
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