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Inventory of a traveller's baggage, including cavalry equipment TM 619unbekannt

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An inventory of travelling baggage, probably belonging to a cavalryman of the Dryton family archive, listing bedding, horse gear, a breastplate and weapons, clothing, vessels, books and writing equipment. The list is attributed in the records perhaps to Esthladas, son of the cavalry officer Dryton, from Ptolemaic Upper Egypt.

In English machine translation

List of baggage: 2 mattresses, 4 pillows, 3 blankets (?), another blanket, a purple saddle-cloth, a sack in which is a breastplate, a Mendesian basin, bridles of bull's hide, riding belts, a book-box, […] a fodder bag in which are books, sandals, a large wine-skin; another sack in which are linen cloths new and old, a bronze cup, a small tub, a drinking vessel, a headstall (?), a child's tunic, a wool bundle of 35 fleeces, a sack-bag in which are a cloak, a chlamys, a lampstand, a red rug and 3 new sweat-cloths, another 6 old sweat-cloths, of which 2 round, 4 weapons, 2 sickles (?) for twisting, a horse's saddle-pad (?), a wine-skin of leather, a stand for jars, a cup, a drinking mug, a fodder bag, a vinegar cruet, an ink-pot, 2 oil flasks, a strigil, another 2 empty sacks, 4 bed legs, 2 leading-reins (?), an alabaster case, a board lying with Inaros, a stool, other turned bed legs 1, another basin […], another honey-boiled […], another small drinking vessel […] bridles […], total […]

The last lines contain numeral-like letters whose meaning is unclear, and several rare terms (e.g. kasai, hidroia, speirantikai) are uncertainly translated. The word written 'katomel' before the fodder bag is not understood.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Greek list of traveller’s items written by ?Esthladas). 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.dryton.1.38

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

Γραφὴ σκευῶν· στρώματα β, προσκεφάλαια δ, κασαὶ γ, ἄλλος κασῆς ἐφίππιος φοινικοῦς σάκκος ἐν ὧι θώραξ, λεκάνη Μενδησία, χαλινὰ ταύρεα, ζωστῆρες ἱππικοί, βυβλιοθήκη, κατωμηλ χιλωτὴρ ἐν ὧι βυβλία, ὑποδήματα, μέγας ἀσκός· ἄλλος σάκκος ἐν ὧι ὀθόνια καινὰ καὶ παλαιά, ποτήριον χαλκοῦν, …