One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 37841

Memorandum listing spices, soap, vessels and nitron TM 37841OxyrhynchosVI

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A short memorandum or account listing household or commercial goods such as cumin, anise, a vessel of soap, new vessels, empty jars and nitron. It comes from Oxyrhynchus and dates to the 6th century AD.

In English machine translation

[recto] 643 (?). † Of cumin, of anise; a vessel of soap; 30 (?) new cheese-moulds (?); 8 empty amphora-jars (?); of nitron [verso] † Memorandum […] [… 11 lines lost …] and for nitron (deleted)

The opening 'χμγ' is probably the Christian cryptogram often read as 'Christ born of Mary' rather than a number. Several terms (ἐγκατύριον, ἀμφοκερυια) are rare or misspelled, so their rendering is uncertain; nitron was a natural soda used for washing.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Account). 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.oxy.10.1343

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

[r] χμγ. † κυμίνου , ἀννήσου ἀγγεῖον σαπωνίου , ἐγκατύριον λ νέα , κοῦφα ἀμφοκερυια η , νιτρίν [v] † ὑπομνηστικὸν το……