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List of clothes in Zenon's trunk, from Peisikles TM 746Kharabet el Gerza (ancient Philadelphia)257 BC (?)

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An inventory of the clothing packed in Zenon's trunk, drawn up by Peisikles. It lists cloaks, tunics, wraps, pillows, socks and belts, noting whether each is for summer or winter, its colour, and whether it is new, washed, half-worn or worn.

In English machine translation

[recto] Zenon's trunk, in which there are: linen wrap, washed, 1 chlamys, earth-coloured, for winter, washed, 1 and worn, 1 for summer, half-worn, 1 natural-coloured, for winter, washed, 1 and worn, 1 vetch-coloured, for summer, new, 1 tunic, white, for winter, with sleeves, washed, 1 natural-coloured, for winter, with sleeves, worn, 1 natural-coloured, for winter, worn, 1 white, for winter, washed, 2 and half-worn, 1 for summer, white, new, 3 unfulled, 1 half-worn, 1 cloak (himation), white, for winter, washed, 1 worn cloak (tribon), 1 summer wrap, white, washed, 1 and half-worn, 1 Sardian pillows, 1 pair socks, earth-coloured, new, 2 pairs white, new, 2 pairs belts, white, new, 2 [verso] From Peisikles. List of Zenon's clothes.

The text was probably written at Alexandria but belongs to the Zenon archive found at Philadelphia. A chlamys is a short Greek mantle, and a tribon is a coarse, worn cloak.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as List of Zenon’s clothes). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.

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List of Zenon's clothes

Papyri.info — APIS (Advanced Papyrological Information System) — papyri · JE48540 · 257 BC (?) · Kharabet el Gerza (ancient Philadelphia)

This list of the contents of Zenon's portmanteau was given or sent to him by Peisikles, and perhaps the clothes described in it were his outfit for one of his long journeys with Apollonios. They are of various kinds and colours, both for summer and for winter, for indoors and ou…

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p.cair.zen.1.59092

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 257 v.Chr. (?) · Alexandria (?)

[r] Ζήνωνος ῥίσκος ἐν ὧι ἔνεστι περίβλημα λινοῦν πεπλυμένον α χλαμὺς γεωβαφὴς χειμερινὴ πεπλυμένη α καὶ τριβακὴ α θερινὴ ἡμιτριβὴς α αὐτόχρους χειμερινὴ πεπλυμένη α καὶ τριβακὴ α ὀροβοειδὴς θερινὴ καινὴ α χιτὼν λευκὸς χειμερινὸς χειριδωτὸς πεπλυμένος α αὐτόχρους χειμερινὸς χειριδ…