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| Title: |
Household Account, Late IInd cent.
A.D. (after ca. 182 A.D.) |
| Summary: |
Account recording expenditures
on various household items, for the most part food, over
at least 9 days
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| Full-Text (DDBDP): |
link
to Perseus Project, P.Mich.:11:619 |
| Inventory Id: |
P.Mich.inv. 200 |
| Publications: |
Shelton JC, PMich XI 619 (col.
I-III only), 1971 -- BL VII, 115 on lines 9,12
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| Publications
About: |
J.R. Rea, JEA 60 (1974) p. 296;
P.Mich.Koenen, p. 237 and n. 1.
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| Original Language: |
Greek
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| Physical Description: |
3 papyri ; ca. 62.5 x 22.5 cm |
| General Notes: |
Pub. status: Verso, 2nd text and
Recto, 2nd text
Library: Ann Arbor
Lines: Col. I (in lower margin of the Verso, upside down)
- 4;.col. II (left margin of the Verso, upside down) -
20;.col. III (upper margin of the Verso, left, upside
down) - 3;.col. IV (upper margin of the Verso, center)
- 2;.col. V (upper margin of the Verso, right) - 2;.col.
VI (between col. I and II of the first text on the Verso,
upside down) - 12(?);.col. VII (lower margin of the Recto,
upside down)
The papyrus was first used to write on the recto a report
of transactions of corn (P.Mich.Koenen 786); then a draft
of a petition was written on the verso (P.Mich.Koenen
787); finally, this householf account was made in the
margins on both sides. The account as a whole was cancelled
by a number of lines drawn casually through it.
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| Subject(s): |
Account; Bath; Feeding; Price;
Profession; Slave; Utensil
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| Resource Type(s): |
Documentary
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| Associated
Name(s): |
Gemellus, fredman of Helene (?)
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| Notes on Custodial
History: |
probably Oxyrhynchus, Oxyrhynchite
nome, province of Egypt
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| Translation: |
(Col. I)..[. . .]; meat(?) . .
. 5 ob.; bread 4 ob.; [. . .] 2 ch.; bath admission 1/2
ob.; beans 2 ch.; lupines 1/2 ob.; vegetables 1 ob.; vetch
2 ob.; lamp wicks 1 ob..[. . .] Bread 4 ob.; asparagus
and beets 3 ob.; broth 1/2 ob.; beans 1/2 ob.; radishes
2 ob.; lettuce and leeks 4 1/2 ob.; relish 1 dr. 3 ob..[.
. .] Bread 6 ob.; meat [. .] dr. [. . .] 6 dr. 6 ob.;
bread 1 dr. 1 ob.; asparagus and beets 5 ob.; broth 1/2
ob. 2 ch.; lemons 4 ob.; beans 1 ob..[. . .] Eggs(?) 1
dr. 3 ob.; bath admission [1/2 ob.; . . .] 2 ch.; for
the slave 4 ob.; oil 5 dr. 1 ob...(Col. II)..30th. Bread
6 ob.; beans 1 ob.; for the child 1 dr. 1 on.; advocate's
fees 44 dr.; sponge 1 dr. 5 ob.; pomegranate wine [[1
dr.]] 6 ob.; wine 18 dr.; sausages 2 dr. 2 ob.; pickled
fish 4 ob.; lupines 1 ob.; bath admission 1/2 ob..1st.
Gift 1 ob.; snails 1 ob.; dyes 2 ob.; a pot 1 ob.; beets
2 ob.; broth 1/2 ob. 2 ch.; lettuce and . . . 4 1/2 ob.;
bread 4 ob.; beans 1 ob...(Col. III)..28. Beets 2 1/2
ob.; broth 1/2 ob.; radishes 1 1/2 ob.; lettuce 4 ob.(?);
coriander 2 ch.; bread 4 ob.; beans 1 ob.; drinking-cups
2 dr. 4 ob.; lupines 1 ob.; boiled food 1 dr..[29?]. .
. . 4 dr.; vegetables 4 ob.; bread 6 ob.; eggs 1 dr. 1/2
ob.; boiled food 1 dr.; asparagus and beets 4 1/2 ob.;
broth 1/2 ob. 2 ch.; beans 1 ob.; lupines 1 ob. 2 ch..[-
- -] 2 ch.; advocate's fees 21 dr. 1 ob.; broth 1 1/2
ob.; vetch 2 ob.; lemons 1 ob.; wine 24 dr. 3 ob.; lamps
1 ob.; . . . 2 ob...(Col. IV-VII unpublished and too fragmentary
to be translated).
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