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
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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.