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Calendar of festivals TM 316238Soknopaiu Nesos (Arsinoites)Ende I - Anfang II

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A fragmentary list, probably a calendar of festivals, from Soknopaiou Nesos in the Fayum, dating to the late 1st or early 2nd century AD. Column ii lists day numbers with festivals such as the Barbillia, lamp-lightings, a rose festival, perfume anointings and celebrations of Sarapis, running into the month of Pachon.

In English machine translation

[column i] […] … […] to the […] to the […] […] […] […] the altar to the […] of making […] […] … […] … […] […] trading place (emporion) […] and to the […] there […] […] defensive alliance (?) […] […] […] […] sacrifice (?) […] […] […] there (?) […] […] […] [… lines lost …] [column ii] 2: Barbillia, to […] from the following […] sacrifices (?) 3: lamp-lighting […] 4: new […] 8: Roman […] 15: likewise […] 20: Elpideia […] 25: dining couch (?) […] 2[.]: rose festival […] 28: anointing with perfume […] Sarapis […] 29: lamp-lighting […] 30: Sarapis […] Pachon 1: equestrian […] […] […] [… lines lost …]

The Barbillia were games at Ephesos named after Tiberius Claudius Balbillus, prefect of Egypt; the identification of the text as a festival calendar is tentative. The numbers in column ii are days of a month preceding Pachon.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Un calendrier de festivités du Fayoum?). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.

bgu.20.2875

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · Ende I - Anfang II · Soknopaiu Nesos (Arsinoites)

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