Home › Spine › TM 39281
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 39281

Account of provisions purchased for a high official TM 39281unbekanntVII

The same ancient text or artifact as recorded by 2 records across 2 independent projects, recognised as one entity by its TM-Text identifier. View on Trismegistos →

An account listing the costs of provisions (wine, oil, nuts, figs, pistachios and sacks) bought on behalf of a high-ranking person, including transport from the market to Neapolis and tolls. The total comes to 23 solidi and some carats. It dates to the 7th century AD.

In English machine translation

[recto] † Statement of each item of provisions (kellarikon) purchased on account of the most illustrious […] as follows: For the price of wine, 10 kollatha of 'milky' wine, at 1 solidus per […] kollathon […] For the price of wine, 10 kollatha of olive-like (?) wine, at 1 solidus per […] kollathon […] For the price of wine, 20 Ascalon jars, at 1 solidus per […] Ascalon jar […] For the price of oil, 20 quarters, 790 sextarii, of which for lightening (?) […] For the price of 20 omphalaria, at 1 solidus per […] omphalarion […] For the price of purple pistachios […] at 1 solidus […] For the price of Thasian nuts, 4 1/2 modii, each modius […] carats […] For the price of dried figs, 4 modii, each modius 4 carats For the price of Pontic nuts, 4 modii, each modius 3 1/2 carats For the price of 4 empty sacks For their freight from the emporion to Neapolis […] For their toll, through your father — Total: 23 solidi, 6 1/2 1/4 carats [verso] [… 14 lines lost …]

Kellarikon refers to cellar or pantry provisions; kollathon and Ascalon jar are wine container measures. 'Neapolis' (New City) may be a district of Alexandria or another town; the reading of some wine types is uncertain.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Conto di generi). 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.laur.4.184

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

[r] † γνῶσις ἑκάστου κελλαρικοῦ ἀγορασθέντος εἰς λόγον τοῦ λαμπροτάτου[…] οὕτως ὑπὲρ τιμῆς οἴνου κολλάθων ι γαλακτικοῦ τοῦ νομίσματος α κολλάθου[…] ὑπὲρ τιμῆς οἴνου κολλάθων ι ἐλαίζοντος τοῦ νομίσματος α κολλάθου[…] ὑπὲρ τιμῆς οἴνου ἀσκαλωνίων κ τοῦ νομίσματος α ἀσκαλωνίου[…] ὑπὲ…