One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 32142
Account of vinegar sales, with a fragmentary letter from Pansas on the back TM 32142Arsinoites (?)III
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An account recording the distribution and sale of vinegar in jars over the months Tybi to Phamenoth, listing recipients such as a gate clerk of Theogenis, a tax collector of Alabanthis, a fuller and a nail-maker, with prices in drachmas and obols. The back carries a fragmentary letter from Pansas asking the recipients to sign and send Posidonios immediately. It dates to the 3rd century AD, probably from the Arsinoite nome.
In English machine translation
[recto, column 1]
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[…] 600 (?)
[…] 1
[…] 1
[remaining lines lost]
[recto, column 2]
26th: of vinegar
Tybi, through Ptollas, 60 dichora
27th, through Dioskoros, 12 tetrachoa, 9 dichora
and […] 20 dichora
Mecheir 23, through Ptollas,
4 tetrachoa
Mecheir 24 […] ⟦[…] 4 drachmas 4 obols⟧
⟦sold […] fuller […] dichora of vinegar⟧
Sold […] 10 dichora of vinegar, drachmas […]
Sold […] fuller, dichora […]
For the weavers' goods (?), fuller, 20
For the house, 1 dichoron of vinegar
Mecheir 3, to Phaidios,
40 jars of vinegar
Sold 1 dichoron of vinegar, 4 drachmas […]
To the gate clerk of Theogenis,
2 dichora of vinegar
20th, to the collector of Alabanthis, 1 jar of vinegar
Sold 2 dichora, drachmas […]
28th, sold 1 dichoron, 4 drachmas […]
Sold 1 dichoron of vinegar […] 4 drachmas 12 obols
Sold 3 dichora, 17 drachmas, obols
Sold 1 dichoron, 5 drachmas 5 obols
Sold to Kanopos 1 dichoron, 4 drachmas […]
Sold another 1 dichoron, 5 drachmas, obols […]
Phamenoth 28, to Anoubas the nail-maker,
1 dichoron
Sold 3 at 4 drachmas each, 12 drachmas
[verso]
[…] from Pansas
[…] has done
[…] towards the
[…] on account of
[…] So sign and send Posidonios at once […]
Dichoron and tetrachoon are jars holding two and four choes respectively. Column 1 preserves only line-end traces.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Registre de vente de vinaigre). 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.gen.1.2ed.71
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