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cpr.7.52 IOxyrhynchites (?)
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Letter about hired labour and harvesters' wages. Fragmentary private letter about farm labour at harvest time: the writer has hired a substitute worker for Heraklas for two days while waiting for guarantors to release the sheaves, and reports the rate of 2 drachmas 3 obols per aroura for harvesters paid by area. It dates to the 1st century AD, probably from the Oxyrhynchite nome. machine translation
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TM 24978.
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- Privatbrief HGV-meta Oxyrhynchites (?)I
Inscriptions (1)
Inscription #1
· Greek
· Greek
Transcription
[r]
[… ? lines lost …]
σουτασ…ξαστ…κωι
λυθη αὐτούς· γίγνωσκε δὲ
ὅτι ἕστακα πρὸς μισθὸν ἕνα
ἀντὶ Ἡρακλᾶτος πρὸς ἡμέρας δύο , ἕως πευσώμεθα ἐὰν
οἵπερ ἐγγυηταὶ λύσωσιν
τὰς ἀνκάλας ἡμῶν· περὶ δὲ
τῶν θεριστῶν γίγνωσκε ὅτι ἐὰν πρὸς μισθὸν αὐτοὺς θερίσωσιν αλ… πρὸς ἀρουρισμὸν θερίζουσιν ἑκάστης ἀρούρας ἀνὰ δραχμὰς β τριώβολον· εὐτύχει
[v]
Παχὼν ιβTranslations (1)
[recto]
[… lines lost …]
[…] … released them. Know that I have hired one man for wages in place of Heraklas for two days, until we learn whether the guarantors release our armfuls (sheaves?). Concerning the harvesters, know that if they harvest for wages […] … they harvest by the aroura at 2 drachmas 3 obols for each aroura. Farewell.
[verso]
Pachon 12
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