An inventory listing household goods, including textiles, bedding, clothing, kitchen utensils, tools and containers, some noted as old or small. One item is recorded as coming through Apa Serenos. It dates to the 5th-6th century AD and probably comes from Hermopolis.
In English machine translation
[recto, column 1]
Breve (inventory) of the […]
shirt (kamision): 1
through Apa Serenos […]: 1
rugs (tapetia): 2
woollen blankets (lanatia): 5
small cushions: 2
pillows (pulvinaria) […]: 2
likewise embroidered (?) […]
hooded cloak (caracalla): 1
cushion (?) (kousoulin): 1
old linen cloth: 1
face-cloth (facial): 1
old elbow-cushions: 2
table[…]: 6
napkin (mappa) […]
kettle […]
basin […]
iron lampstand […]
lid of a cooking pot […]
iron frying pan […]
likewise small […]
likewise […]
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hanging […]
ladle […]
saddle […]
[…]: 1
[…]: 2
[column 2]
lamp: 1
[…]: 1
[…]
axe: 1
[…]: 4
chest […]
case (glossokomon): 1
[…]: 1
likewise small […]
felt cap (kamelaukion): 1
handkerchiefs (mandelia): 2
balance […]: 1
bag: 1
containing visible keratia
likewise […]: 2
ladle-cup (kyathos): 1, 2
three-legged stool: 1
likewise small couch-cover: 1
small blankets: 3
tunics (sticharia): 6
changes of clothing: 2
likewise small case: 1
[…]: 1
small chests […]
cellar-jars (?): 2
butt (?): 1
leather sack: 1
[verso]
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likewise
sacks […]
pack-saddle […]
belt (?) (sphikturion)
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soup-ladle (zomaristron)
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Many items are Latin loanwords (breve, caracalla, pulvinar, mappa, accubitalium), typical of late antique Greek. Several item names are damaged and their identifications are uncertain; keratia are small coins.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Inventarliste). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.