Account
Account
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 89236
Daily account of food purchases TM 89236This document was discovered in a trench north of the Serapis Temple at Berenike.A.D. 50 - 75
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A short daily expense account on an ostracon listing small purchases of vegetables, salted fish and bread, each costing a few obols, entered by day of the month. It was found at the Red Sea port of Berenike and dates to about AD 50-75.
In English machine translation
Account: 22nd, bundle of cabbage, bundle of celery, 1 obol
23rd, salted fish […]
salted fish, 2 obols
entrance fees (?), 3 obols
cabbage, 4 obols
bread, 2 obols
26th, salted fish, 2 obols
25th, bread, 2 obols
27th, salted fish, 2 obols
artaba(?) […], 2 obols
The numbers 22 to 27 appear to be days of the month; the entry for the 25th follows that for the 26th in the text. The term eisodia, literally 'entrance (payments)', is uncertain in this context.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as 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.
o.berenike.2.210
λόγος κβ δέσμης κράμβης σελίνων δέσμης ὀβολός κγ ταρίχου […]… ταρίχου διώβολον εἰσόδια τριώβολον κράμβης τετρώβολον ἄρτων διώβολον κϛ ταρίχου διώβολον κε ἄρτων διώβολον κζ ταρίχου διώβολον ἀρταβ… διώβολον