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p.fouad.1.37 13. Apr. 48Oxyrhynchos (?)
Contrat d’apprentissage, concernant le métier de tisserand assis via HGV-meta
Apprenticeship contract for linen-weaving between Menodoros and Lucius Pompeius Niger. A handwritten apprenticeship contract in which the weaver Menodoros son of Apollonios undertakes to teach Fuscus, the underage son of Lucius Pompeius Niger, the craft of seated linen-weaving over two years, paying the father 4 drachmas a month. It sets terms for holidays, absences, a final examination before three craftsmen, and penalties. Dated 13 April AD 48, probably at Oxyrhynchus. machine translation
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TM 20987.
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- Contrat d’apprentissage, concernant le métier de tisserand assis HGV-meta Oxyrhynchos (?)13. Apr. 48
- Contract of apprenticeship APIS-papyrus Oxyrhynchus (?)A.D. 48
Inscriptions (1)
Inscription #1
· Greek
· Greek
Transcription
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Μηνόδωρος Ἀπολλωνίου, Ἀλθαιεύς, Λουκίῳ Πομπηίωι Νίγερι χαίρειν. ὁμολογῶ σε ἐκδεδόσθαι μοι τὸν υἱὸν σοῦ Φοῦσκον, οὐδέπω ὄντα τῶν ἐτῶν
ἐκδιδάξαι τὴν λινουφικὴν τῶν καθημένων τέχνην πᾶσαν ἐντελῶς, καθὰ καὶ ἐγὼ ἐπίσταμαι, ἐν ἔτεσι δυσί ἀπὸ μηνὸς Γερμανικείου τοῦ ὀγδόου
ἔτους Τιβερίου Κλαυδίου Καίσαρος Σεβαστοῦ Γερμανικοῦ Αὐτοκράτορος, ἐφʼ ᾧ καὶ χορηγήσω σοὶ ὑπὲρ αὐτοῦ μισθὸν κατὰ μῆνα ἕκαστον ἀργυρίου
δραχμὰς τέσσαρας γίνονται δραχμαὶ δ, σοῦ τοῦ πατρὸς τρέφοντος αὐτὸν καὶ ἱματίζοντος· ὃν καὶ παρέξῃ μοι παραμένοντα πρὸς τῇ μαθήσει, αὐτὰς τὰς ἡμέρας,
ὑπήκοον ὄντα ἐν τοῖς κατὰ τὴν τέχνην· ἀργήσει τοῦ μηνὸς ἡμέρας τρεῖς · ὧν καὶ οὐδὲν ἀπὸ τοῦ μισθοῦ ὑπολογήσω· τῶν δὲ πλείονων τοῦ μὲν
μισθοῦ τὸ ἐπίβαλλον ὑπολογήσω, ἀντιπαρέξῃ μοι δὲ αὐτὸν τὰς ἴσας μετὰ τὸν χρόνον ἐπὶ τοῖς αὐτοῖς· ὃν καὶ οὐκ ἀποσπάσεις ἀπʼ ἐμοῦ ἐντὸς τοῦ
χρόνου, οὐδέ μοι ἐξέσθαι ἀποτρίψασθαι αὐτὸν ἐντὸς τοῦ ἴσου χρόνου· τούτου δὲ πληρωθέντος ἐπιδείξομαι σοὶ αὐτὸν ἐπὶ ὁμοτέχνων
τριῶν ὧν ἐὰν κοινῇ γνῶμῃ ἑλώμεθα … ἐὰν δʼ ἔν τινι παραβαίνω ἐκτείσω σοὶ παραχρῆμα τά τε βλάβη καὶ δαπανήματα
καὶ οὓς ἐὰν προσοφείλω μισθοὺς σὺν ἡμιολίᾳ καὶ ἐπίτιμον ἀργυρίου δραχμὰς ἑκατὸν , καθάπερ ἐκ δίκης, χωρὶς τοῦ κύρια εἶναι τὰ προγεγραμμένα. ἔτους η Τιβερίου Κλαυδίου Καίσαρος Σεβαστοῦ Γερμανικοῦ Αὐτοκράτορος, Φαρμοῦθι ιη.
ὡς ἐτῶν μ οὐλὴ μήλῳ δεξιῷ.
Μηνόδωρος Ἀπολλωνίου διδάξω καὶ ποιήσω καθώς πρόκειται.
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Μηνόδωρος ΦούσκουTranslations (1)
[recto]
Menodoros son of Apollonios, of the Althaean deme, to Lucius Pompeius Niger, greeting. I acknowledge that your son Fuscus, not yet of age, has been apprenticed to me, so that I may teach him the whole craft of seated linen-weaving completely, just as I myself know it, in two years from the month Germanikeios of the eighth year of Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus Imperator, on condition that I shall pay you on his behalf as wages each month 4 silver drachmas, total 4 dr., you, the father, feeding and clothing him; and you shall provide him to me remaining at his instruction for the days themselves, obedient in matters concerning the craft. He shall be idle three days a month, for which I shall deduct nothing from the wages; for any more days I shall deduct the corresponding share of the wages, and you shall provide him to me in return for an equal number of days after the term on the same terms. You shall not take him away from me within the term, nor shall I be permitted to dismiss him within the same term. When this is completed I shall present him to you before three fellow craftsmen whom we choose by common consent […]. If I transgress in any respect, I shall pay you at once the damages and expenses, and whatever wages I still owe plus half again, and a penalty of 100 silver drachmas, as if by judgment, in addition to the foregoing remaining valid. Year 8 of Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus Imperator, Pharmouthi 18.
About 40 years old, scar on right cheek.
I, Menodoros son of Apollonios, shall teach and do as stated above.
[verso]
Menodoros, (concerning) Fuscus
Connections
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Oxyrhynchus
Cross-references (3)
- TM-Text 20987 primary
- DDbDP-Text p.fouad;1;37 tier-1
- HGV-Text 20987 tier-1
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