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p.mich.5.349 29. Aug. - 27. Sept. 30Arsinoites

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Contract for planting and watering mulberry trees on dykes. Subscription to a work contract in which Harpaesis son of Panorses agrees to plant and water 150 mulberry trees on the dykes around 300 arouras of land for a wage of 144 drachmas, 60 paid in advance by the slave Phileros. It was written for him by the priest-official Marepsemis because Harpaesis was illiterate, at Tebtynis in the Arsinoite nome in AD 30. machine translation

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Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 · Greek · Greek

Transcription

ἔτους ἑκκαι ἐκ κολλήματος Ἁρπαῆσις Πανορσήουιος Πέρσης τῆς ἐπιγονῆς ὁμολογῶ ἐπάναγκον φυτεύσειν ἐν τοῖς περὶ τὰς τριακοσίας ἀρούρας χώμασιν ἐν δρυμῷ ἀπὸ τοῦ ἐνεστῶτος μηνὸς Σεβαστοῦ τοῦ ἑπτακαιδεκάτου ἔτους Τιβερίου Καίσαρος Σεβαστοῦ, διὰ τὸ ἐπὶ τούτοις γεγράφθαι με, καὶ εἰληφέναι μοι παραχρῆμα ἐκ τοῦ ἑσταμένου μισθοῦ δοθῆναι ἀπὸ ἀργυρίου δραχμῶν ἑκατὸν τεσσαράκοντα τεσσάρων ἐπὶ λόγου ἐσχηκέναι με παραχρῆμα διὰ χειρὸς παρὰ Φιλέρωτος δούλου ἀργυρίου δραχμὰς ἑξήκοντα · τὰς δὲ λοιπὰς ἀργυρίου δραχμὰς ὀγδοήκοντα τέσσαρες λήμψομαι κατὰ μῆνα τὸ αἱροῦν ἀπὸ μηνὸς Μεχείρ, καὶ παραδόσω εἰς ζωφυτούσας συκαμίνας ἑκατὸν πεντήκοντα ἐν τοῖς προκιμένοις χώμασι ἃς καὶ ποτιῶ τοῦ μηνὸς πεντάκι. ἐὰν δὲ μὴ παραδῶ καθὼς πρόκιται ἐξάναγκον ἐκτείσω τὰς προκιμένας ἀργυρίου δραχμὰς ἑκατὸν τεσσαράκοντα τέσσαρας καὶ τοὺς τόκους καθὼς πρόκιται. ἔγραψεν ὑπὲρ αὐτοῦ Μαρεψῆμις Μαρεψήμιος λεσώνου διὰ τὸ μὴ εἰδέναι αὐτὸν γράμματα.

Translations (1)

EN AI · machine translation from the DDbDP edition (Claude Opus 5.5)
Year sixsix(?) From the roll (?) I, Harpaesis son of Panorses, Persian of the Epigone, acknowledge that I am obliged to plant on the dykes around the 300 arouras in the woodland (?), from the present month Sebastos of the seventeenth year of Tiberius Caesar Augustus, because I have been engaged on these terms, and that I have received at once, out of the agreed wage of 144 silver drachmas to be given, on account, 60 silver drachmas, received by me at once from hand to hand from Phileros the slave; the remaining 84 silver drachmas I shall receive monthly in proportion from the month Mecheir; and I shall deliver 150 living (?) mulberry trees on the aforesaid dykes, which I shall also water five times a month. If I do not deliver as stated above, I shall of necessity pay back the aforesaid 144 silver drachmas and the interest as stated above. Marepsemis son of Marepsemis, lesonis, wrote for him because he does not know letters.

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Found at Arsinoite nome

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