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List of provisions and articles loaded on a boat TM 35605OxyrhynchosV - frühes VI

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A list of household articles and provisions loaded onto a boat, including jars of wine, sealed salted fish and meat, pots of food, frying pans, wooden bolts with keys, birds and silverware. It comes from Oxyrhynchus and dates to the 5th or early 6th century AD.

In English machine translation

[recto] 643 † List of articles put on board the boat, as follows: underarm bags (?) 3, sigistropyle (?) 1, double sack 1, small mat of bread morsels 1, wine, 4 double jars, salted fish (thrissia), sealed, 2 double jars, meat, sealed, 2 double jars, pot of delicacies, sealed, 1, flask of […], sealed, 1, flask of dill, sealed, 1, pot from the coop (?) 1, pot of garlic dishes 1, […] 1, small oil flask 1, frying pans 3, basket holding 2 pots of jellied food, small jar of oil, sealed, 1, wooden bars with their keys 5, goose-traps (?) 2, birds 2, silver plate 1, small calfskin bag (?) 1, pot of cumin 1. [verso]

The opening 'χμγ' is a Christian isopsephic symbol (643), often read as a cryptogram. Several item names (sigistropyle, hypomaschala, chenagria, knidin moschinon) are rare and their exact meanings uncertain.

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

DDbDP-text Full record →

p.oxy.16.1923

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · V - frühes VI · Oxyrhynchos

[r] χμγ † βρεούιον σκευῶν βληθέντων ἐν τῷ πλοίῳ, οὕτως. ὑπομάσχαλα γ, σιγιστροπύλη α, δισάκκιον α, ψιάθιον ψωμίων α, οἴνου διπλᾶ δ, θρισσίων σφραγισθέντα διπλᾶ β, κρεῶν σφραγισθέντα διπλᾶ β, κύθρα ὀψαρίων ἐσφραγισμένη α, λαγύνιν[…]λ[…]κ σφραγισθὲν α, λαγύνιν ἀννηθίου σφραγισθὲν α…