Account
Account of wages for farm labor
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 10601
Account of wages for farm labour on the estate of Lucius TM 10601Probably Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt28-23 B.C.
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An account of payments for farm work on an estate of a certain Lucius, listing wages for workmen building dykes, sowing, ploughing with ox teams and breaking clods, along with purchases such as vinegar. It dates to year 3 of Caesar (Augustus), probably from the Arsinoite nome.
In English machine translation
[recto]
Year 3 of Caesar, Phaophi.
Account of […] of Lucius:
workmen making dykes, 3, 1 drachma 3 obols
Sobe[…] 2 drachmas
[…] 1 obol
Harpas son of Harpas 100 drachmas
Phaophi 6, from Eriptos, for vinegar […] 18 drachmas
Likewise Hathyr 8, from Chrestos, for vinegar (?) 16 drachmas
[…] 3 drachmas
from Sp[…] 5 obols
for […] of the digger […] drachmas
Hathyr 28 […] Chresatos (?) […] 3 drachmas 3 obols
[…] drachmas […]
Hathyr 29
to Akoutis 4 drachmas
[…] workmen sowing 42 drachmas, and for a team of oxen from A[…] 2 drachmas
Epis[…] 22 drachmas 4 obols
[…] 1 drachma 4 obols
[verso]
[…] son of Horos […] 6 arouras, Kraos ploughing
teams of oxen: to Horos 2 obols; of Ischyrion the herdsman
total 9 drachmas 4 obols; 4 drachmas
workmen breaking clods, 7; of Nepheros son of Lakon
at 3 obols each, 3 drachmas 3 obols; for oxen 4 drachmas
and of Bikon, 6 teams of oxen, 11 drachmas
workmen breaking clods, 6, 3 drachmas
workmen cutting […] (?), 2, 1 drachma
[…] arouras […] drachmas
5 teams of oxen 8 drachmas
workmen breaking clods
and 2 boys
total, all together, 44 drachmas
of Chrestos 6 drachmas
likewise for […]
[…] of woof (?) […] drachmas
[…] 16 drachmas
[…] workmen […]
[…] 1 drachma 2 obols
[…] 6 drachmas
Many entries are poorly legible, so several items and amounts are uncertain. The text dates itself to Phaophi of year 3 of Caesar, while the records give a broader range of 28-23 BC.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Account of Farm Labor). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
p.corn.25
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