One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 31802

Account of weaving implements and other goods with prices TM 31802OxyrhynchosEnde III - IV

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Fragment of an account listing implements, mostly for spinning and weaving (shuttles, spindles, combs, warp-threads, bobbins, distaffs), together with bridal items, an axe and nuts, each with quantities and two money values in drachmas. It comes from Oxyrhynchus and dates to the late 3rd or 4th century AD.

In English machine translation

[Column 1] Shuttles (?), [...] drachmas, [...] drachmas; spindles [...], 10+ drachmas, [...] drachmas; combs, 11+ drachmas, [...] drachmas; [...] [...] drachmas; warp-threads, 5, 1,000 drachmas, 2,000 drachmas; bobbins of weft, 5, 340 drachmas, 500 drachmas; combs, 5, 300 drachmas, 600 drachmas; distaffs, 9, 1,200 drachmas, 4,000 drachmas; bridal items, 500, 1,000 drachmas, 2,400 drachmas; small axe, 300 drachmas, 600 drachmas; nuts, 3,000 drachmas, 1 talent [...]; litra measures (?), 25, 1,000 drachmas, 2,680 drachmas; of glass (?) [...] [Column 2] [...]

Each entry gives two sums, possibly an earlier and a later price, reflecting the inflation of the period. Several item names (nymphika, leitneia, hyalimon) are of uncertain meaning.

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 Implements, &c.). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.

p.oxy.14.1740

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

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