An inventory of clothing and household linens, listing tunics, mantles, dalmatics, belts, cloaks, napkins, face-cloths, coverlets and bath towels with their quantities. It comes from Oxyrhynchus and dates to the early 4th century AD.
In English machine translation
[column 1]
List of garments:
2 white tunics,
1 Xoite (garment),
2 white mantles (maphoria),
2 Xoite dalmatics,
1 white […] with mantle,
2 belts,
1 […],
1 pallium,
2 white linen cloths (lentia),
1 linen cloth of stone colour (?),
1 Mothonian linen cloth,
4 hooded cloaks (birroi).
[column 2]
Likewise, of linens:
1 woolly dalmatic,
1 embroidered tunic,
[…] new napkins,
1 new face-cloth,
other […],
[…] wraps (anaboladia),
1 tunic with purple border,
[…] linens in a coverlet,
[…] with purple border,
[…] other coverlets,
1 new face-cloth,
[…] coverlets,
[…] new, with purple border,
bath towels for carrying,
other coverlets […],
1 other face-cloth.
Xoite garments are named after the town of Xois in the Delta; the meaning of 'laïnon' (here rendered stone-coloured) is uncertain. Many quantities in the second column are lost.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as List of Clothes). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.