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p.oxy.16.1893 18. Juli 535Oxyrhynchos

Contract with a Boat - Builder via HGV-meta

Contract hiring two shipwrights from Ptolemais for work on a boat. A labour contract in which Aurelius Menas, a shipwright of Oxyrhynchus, engages two shipwrights from Ptolemais in the Thebaid, Anoup and Victor, to work 45 days on a boat for wages in gold and food (bread, meat, oil and wine). It is dated 18 July 535 at Oxyrhynchus; the end of the text is lost. machine translation

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Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 · Greek · Greek

Transcription

[r] † ὑπατείας Φλαουίου Βελισαρίου τοῦ ἐνδοξοτάτου […] Ἐπεὶφ κδ ἰνδικτίονος ιγ. Αὐρήλιος Μηνᾶς ναυπηγὸς υἱὸς Ἰούστου μητρὸς Ἡραϊδος ἀπὸ τῆς Ὀξυρυγχιτῶν Αὐρηλίοις Ἀνοῦπ υἱῷ Φοιβάμμωνος καὶ Βίκτωρι υἱῷ Ἰωάννου ἀπὸ τῆς Πτολεμαίδος τῆς Θηβαίων ἐπαρχίας καὶ αὐτοῖς ναυπηγοῖς. ἐπειδὴ ἤρεσα ὑμῖν πρὸς ἐργασίαν τῆς τέχνης τῶν ναυπηγῶν εἰς τὸ πλοῖον, ὥστε ὑμᾶς ποιήσασθαί μοι τεσσεράκοντα πέντε ἡμέρας ἐν ἔργοις ἑκάστου νομίσματος καὶ ψωμίων ἀρταβῶν δύο καὶ κρέως λίτρας εἴκοσι καὶ ἐλαίου ξέστας ἓξ καὶ οἴνου διπλᾶ ἓξ καὶ ἀνενοχλήτους ὑμᾶς εἶναι ἐκ τοῦ δημοσίου τῆς τέχνης, καὶ μετὰ τὸ τὸ πᾶν πλοῖον τετελέσθαι, κοινωνῆσαι[…] […]υ ἐπιστω…[…] [… ? lines lost …] [v] † ὁμολογία γενομένη παρὰ Μηνᾶ ναυπηγοῦ υἱοῦ Ἰούστου

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EN AI · machine translation from the DDbDP edition (Claude Opus 5.5)
[recto] † In the consulship of Flavius Belisarius, the most glorious […], Epeiph 24, 13th indiction. Aurelius Menas, shipwright, son of Justus, his mother being Herais, from the city of the Oxyrhynchites, to Aurelii Anoup son of Phoibammon and Victor son of John, from Ptolemais of the province of the Thebans, likewise shipwrights. Whereas I have agreed with you for work in the shipwrights' craft on the boat, on the terms that you shall spend for me forty-five days at work, each of you for 1 solidus and 2 artabas of bread and 20 pounds of meat and 6 sextarii of oil and 6 double jars of wine, and that you shall be free from harassment by the public guild (?) of the craft, and after the whole boat has been completed, to share […] […] […] [… lines lost …] [verso] † Agreement made by Menas, shipwright, son of Justus.

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