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bgu.3.698 IIArsinoites
Farm work diary and letter about harvest near Karanis. A fragmentary day-by-day report of farm work near Karanis in the Arsinoite nome, listing workers such as Eutyches, Kerdon, Phaesis and Germanus drying, carrying sheaves, winnowing and harvesting barley. It ends as a letter to the landowner asking for instructions and a quick reply, from the 2nd century AD. machine translation
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TM 28074.
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Transcription
[…]παρεγενόμεθα ἀπʼ Ἀλεξανδρείας εἰς Καρανίδα
[…]α…
[…]Εὐτυχὴς εἰς τὸν ἀπηλιώτην ποιῆσαι τὸν ψυγμόν
[…] καὶ ἤργησε ἑτοιμάσαι χαλκὸν εἰς τὰ ε[…]…
[…]… ὁμοίως τὸν αὐτὸν ψυγμὸν ποιοῦντες
[…]Εὐτυχὴς μετὰ Σαμβᾶτος.
[…] Κέρδων μετὰ Φαήσεως.
[…]οἱ β μετὰ Φαήσεως.
[…]Εὐτυχὴς ἤργησε.
[…]…ν ἐφώδευσε κουτιβευ
[…]Εὐτυχὴς εἰς τὸν ἀπηλιώτην ἐφοδεῦσαι τὰ δράγματα
[…]…ου εἰς Κερκεσοῦχα μετὰ Φαήσεως
[…]ηργήσαμεν εἰς ἀνθρωπιν[…]ν […]αμβελ
[…]Εὐτυχὴς καὶ ὁ γέρδιος ἐδραγματήγουν
[…]… ἐλίκμα μετὰ Φαήσεως.
[…]…δ… ἐποτίζαμεν κουτιβευ
[…] ἄγρωστιν αἴροντες ἐγγὺς τῆς ἅλω
[…] ἐλικμῶμεν τὴν ἅλω.
[…]ως οἱ β καὶ Γερμανὸς καὶ Φαῆσις ἐλικμῶμεν
[…]β ἐγγὺς τῆς ἅλω ἐγγὺς τῆς κώμης
[…] ἕως Ἐπεὶφ β οἱ β κριθὴν συνεκομίζαμεν
[…] ἀχυρηγοῦντες κουτιβευ
[…] Εὐτυχ συνλέγε καλάμην τοῦ αὐτοῦ τόπου
[…]ν μετὰ Φαήσεως δραγματηγῶν δ καὶ ε
[…] καλάμην συνελέγαμεν ὁμοίως κουτιβευ
[…] καὶ ἄλλης ἀρούρης α 𐅵 γίνονται ἄρουραι ϛ 𐅵. ἐκ τούτων περιεγένοντο
[…]…ω ἀλοήτρων ἀρτάβ β δ τὰ ναῦλα χωρὶς τῶν
[…] συνεκομίσαμεν τὰ παιδάριά σου ἔλαβε ἀπʼ αὐτῶν
[…]πολλά μοι ποιοῦσι ὅτι πωλήσομεν δεῖ τὸν εἰς τὰ δημόσια[…]αλ[…]ων ὅτι ἕως μοι γράψῃς εἰ μὴ ἐν τάχει μοι
[…]λάβῃ σου ἡ μήτηρ, ἢ ποιήσῃς τινὰ φροντίζειν
[…]ς αὐτῶν πάντα, μὴ αὐτοὶ ὄψονται περὶ πάντων
[…]ἐν τάχει τὴν ἀντιφώνησιν. εἰ δʼ ἄρα μὴ ταχέως
[…] μήτηρ, καὶ πέμψον μοι χαρτάριον.Translations (1)
[…] we arrived from Alexandria at Karanis
[…]
[…] Eutyches to the east (district) to do the drying
[…] and he was idle, to prepare copper (money) for the […]
[…] likewise doing the same drying
[…] Eutyches with Sambas.
[…] Kerdon with Phaesis.
[…] the 2 with Phaesis.
[…] Eutyches was idle.
[…] inspected (?) […]
[…] Eutyches to the east (district) to inspect the sheaves
[…] to Kerkesoucha with Phaesis
[…] we were idle for human (?) […] vine (?) […]
[…] Eutyches and the weaver were carrying sheaves
[…] winnowed with Phaesis.
[…] we irrigated […]
[…] removing dog's-tooth grass near the threshing floor
[…] we are winnowing the threshing floor.
[…] the 2 and Germanus and Phaesis, we are winnowing
[…] near the threshing floor near the village
[…] until Epeiph 2 the 2 of us gathered in the barley
[…] carrying chaff […]
[…] Eutyches collects stubble from the same place
[…] with Phaesis carrying sheaves, 4th and 5th
[…] we likewise collected stubble […]
[…] and of another 1 1/2 arouras, total 6 1/2 arouras. From these there remained
[…] for threshing 2 1/4 artabas, the transport charges apart from the
[…] we gathered in; your slaves took from them
[…] they give me much trouble because we shall sell; the one for the public (dues) must […] until you write to me, unless quickly
[…] your mother receives, or you have someone take care of
[…] all of them, lest they themselves see to everything
[…] the reply quickly. But if not quickly
[…] mother, and send me a sheet of papyrus.
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