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p.cair.preis.2ed.38 IVHermopolites (?)
Contract of Work via HGV-meta
Agreement for farm work paid in pulses and daily cakes. Fragmentary agreement from the 4th century AD, probably from the Hermopolite nome, in which workers undertake agricultural work in return for a share of the pulse crops (1/2 + 1/3 artaba per aroura, matched to any higher rate offered locally) and two cakes a day each. Hatres son of Iakob guarantees their wage, and Aurelius Bekis son of Bion signs for the illiterate parties. machine translation
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TM 33287.
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- p.cair.preis.38 DDbDP-text Hermopolites (?)IV
- Contract of Work HGV-meta Hermopolites (?)IV
- Lease of land APIS-papyrus ?4th c. AD
Inscriptions (1)
Inscription #1
· Greek
· Greek
Transcription
[… ? lines lost …]
[…]… ἐπι…[…]
ποιήσασθαι […]
ωνος ἐθέμην …[…]
ὁμοίως τὴν […]
λαμβάνοντες ε…[…]
καρπῶν καὶ λαχάνων […]…[…]
τῶν δὲ φασήλων καὶ κυάμων καὶ φακοῦ ὁμοίως ἑκάστης
ἀρούρης μιᾶς ἀρτάβην ἥμισυ τρίτον, εἰ δὲ εὑρεθείησαν
ἄλλοι παρέχοντες ἐν τοῖς αὐτοῖς τόποις πλεῖον τοῦ ἥμισυ
τρίτου ἀρτάβης, ληψόμεθα καθʼ ὁμοιότητα αὐτῶν,
λαμβάνομεν δὲ ἕκαστος ἡμερουσίως ἁμιτύρια δύο. ἡ ὁμολογία κυρία, ἣν καὶ ἐξεδόμην πρὸς ἀσφάλειαν καὶ ἐπερωτηθεὶς
ὡμολόγησα. μετὰ τὴν ὑπατείαν τὴν προκειμένην. Ἁτρητος Ἰακώβου
μέντοι ἀναδεχομένου τὸν μισθὸν ἡμῶν ὡς πρόκειται.
Μεχεὶρ ια. ὁ προκείμενος ἐθέμην τὴν ὁμολογίαν
ὡς πρόκειται καὶ τὴν κολοβοφυοῦς χόρτου περὶ
τὸ ὄρκανα ἐπὶ τοῦ ἡμᾶς ποιήσασθαι προῖκα. Αὐρήλιος Βῆκις
Βίωνος ἔγραψα ὑπὲρ αὐτῶν γράμματα μὴ
εἰδότων.Translations (1)
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to make [...]
... I drew up ... [...]
likewise the [...]
receiving ... [...]
of fruits and vegetables [...] ... [...]
and of the phaselus beans, beans and lentils likewise for each single aroura 1/2 1/3 artaba, and if others should be found offering in the same places more than 1/2 1/3 artaba, we shall receive at the same rate as they do,
and we each receive daily two hamityria (cakes). The agreement is valid, which I have also issued for security, and having been asked the formal question I have assented. After the aforementioned consulship. Hatres son of Iakob, however, guaranteeing our wage as aforesaid.
Mecheir 11. I, the aforementioned, have drawn up the agreement as aforesaid, and that concerning the stunted-growing hay around the enclosures (?), on condition that we do it free of charge. I, Aurelius Bekis son of Bion, wrote on their behalf since they do not know letters.
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Cross-references (3)
- TM-Text 33287 primary
- DDbDP-Text p.cair.preis.2ed;;38 tier-1
- HGV-Text 33287 tier-1
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