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Account of timber loaded onto boats TM 31801OxyrhynchosIII

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An account recording timber loaded onto a series of boats: a cabin-barge belonging to Silvanus and five further boats of sailors including Romanus, Horion, Pasion and Zoilos. For each it lists the number of tree trunks and branches. It dates to the 3rd century AD and comes from Oxyrhynchus.

In English machine translation

[…] timber (?) […] Into the cabin-barge (thalamegos) of Silvanus: timber, trunks, 12 in number, and 4 branches. Second boat, of Romanus, sailor: timber, trunks, 11 in number. Third boat, of Horion, sailor: timber, trunks, 10 in number, and 1 branch. Fourth boat, of Pasion: timber, trunks, 11 in number, and 3 branches. Fifth boat, of Zoilos, sailor: timber, trunks, 10 in number. Sixth boat, of […]: timber, trunks, 10 in number, and 2 branches.

A thalamegos was a barge fitted with a cabin, often used by officials. "Trunks" renders Greek somata, literally "bodies", meaning whole logs as opposed to branches.

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 Timber). 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.oxy.14.1738

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · III · Oxyrhynchos

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