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Porterage account for goods brought by the captain Herakleides TM 674Kharabet el Gerza (ancient Philadelphia)259 B.C.

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An account of porterage charges paid to workmen for unloading goods brought by the ship's captain Herakleides, including wine, figs, meat, nuts, vinegar, oil, sponges and a leather tent, totalling 13 drachmas. A marginal list notes items Herakleides did not report. It belongs to the Zenon archive, concerning imports for Apollonios, 259 BC.

In English machine translation

Expenditure on workmen through Herakleides the ship's captain: Chian (jars), 61, at 1/2 obol each; porterage for these 5 drachmas 1/2 obol Dried figs, 9 jars; porterage 4 1/2 obols Meat, 6 jars, at 1 1/2 obols each; porterage 1 drachma 3 obols Thasian (jars), 4 ⟦5⟧, at 1/2 1/4 obol each; porterage 3 1/2 1/4 obols Royal nuts, 1 basket; porterage 3 obols And hard (nuts), 2 more; porterage 2 obols Braziers, 2; porterage 1 1/2 obols ⟦Chest, 1; porterage 1 1/2 obols⟧ Sweet wine, 4 half-jars; porterage 2 obols Vinegar, ⟦4⟧ 2 jars; porterage 2 obols Kermes (?) berries, 4 baskets; porterage 2 obols White oil, 1 half-jar; porterage 1 obol Leather tent; porterage 2 drachmas 3 obols Sponges, 2 baskets; porterage for these 1 obol Raisins, 1 small basket Total 13 drachmas 1/2 1/4 obol [margin] Items he does not report: half-Chian (jars), 2 he does not report a sieve Pontic nuts Chian (jar), 1 groats a basket cheese a jar honey, 1 he does not report one brazier fire-irons (?), 2 a two-seated chair (?)

The archive was found at Philadelphia, but the account probably concerns carriage from the Mareotic harbour to a storehouse in Alexandria. Phoretron means a carriage or porterage charge; some item identifications (kokkon, epipyra, diedron) are uncertain.

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

Porterage account

Papyri.info — APIS (Advanced Papyrological Information System) — papyri · JE48462 · 259 B.C. · Kharabet el Gerza (ancient Philadelphia)

The articles mentioned in this account, including the marginal list, comprise practically all the goods imported by Herakleides for Apollonios with a few additional things. The phoretron was probably the charge for porterage between the Mareotic harbour and the store-house in Al…

p.cair.zen.1.59013

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 259 v.Chr. · Alexandria (?)

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