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Price list from Dura-Europos

Fragmentary Greek graffito from Dura-Europos recording the prices of everyday goods such as wine, meat, wood and lamp wicks.
 
The New Mithraeum
23 May 2026
Scratched on a piece of wall plaster. L.H. 0.006–0.013.F. Heichelheim in Tenney Frank, Economic Survey of Ancient Rome, IV 1938, 207; Report, No. 861 and Pl. L, 3.δάννα…. / κρέας…. / ἔλεν ✶…. / ξύλα ✶β´ / ῥεφανίδια υε´ / χάρτα υβ´ / ἐλλύχνιν υε´.“A jar of wine, [denarii–]; meat, [den. –]; oil, den.[–]; wood, den. 2; radishes, assaria(?) 5; paper, ass. 2; lamp wicks, ass. 5”.

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