Receipt for Garments
List of garments to be given to Theodosios in Zenon's name
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 34827
Memorandum of garments to be received from Theodosios for Zenon TM 34827UnknownVth century or VIth century A.D.
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A memorandum from a certain Zenon listing garments and other items (tunics, Antiochene cloaks, embroidered panels, spoons) kept at the place of Prisorios and handled through Martyrios. The items are to be received from Theodosios on account of a debt he owes Zenon. Byzantine Egypt, 5th to 6th century AD.
In English machine translation
[recto]
Christ, Michael, Gabriel (?)
☧ Memorandum of garments that are in the (house?) of Prisorios, through the brother Martyrios, from me, Zenon:
1 linen tunic (sticharion), one;
5 Antiochene cloaks (phailonia), total five;
1 genuine Antiochene hooded cloak (karakallion), total one;
1 linen-and-?(linopixon) tunic, total one;
3 planitika, three;
a shirt (kamision) and a cloak (phailonion);
1 green armarausin, one;
4 embroidered panels (tablia), total four;
1 small linen cloth (sindonion), total one;
10 unmarked (?) spoons, total ten.
These items, from the brother Theodosios, receive from him on account of what he owes me for the […] for the burials (?).
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[verso]
Receipt of Zenon […]
The opening ΧΜΓ is a common Christian invocation, often read as Christ, Michael, Gabriel. Several garment terms (linopixon, planitika, armarausin) are rare and their exact meaning uncertain; the deleted word 'give' shows the writer changed the instruction to 'receive'.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Receipt for Garments). 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.mich.14.684
[r] Χ Μ Γ ☧ ὑπομνηστικὸν ἱματίων τῶν ἐν τῷ Πρισορίου διὰ τοῦ ἀδελφοῦ Μαρτυρίου παρʼ ἐμοῦ Ζήνωνος· στιχάριον λινοῦν α, ἕν· φαιλόνια Ἀντιοχήσια ε, γίνονται πέντε· ἀληθινὸν καρακάλλιον Ἀντιοχήσιον α, γίνεται ἕν· λινόπιξον στιχάριον α, γίνεται ἕν· πλανιτικὰ γ, τρία· καμίσιον καὶ φαιλ…