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Contract hiring flute-players for a festival at Tebtynis TM 10761Antinoopolis (?) Tebtynis (Arsinoites)

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A contract in which Aurelius Philosarapis, a citizen of Antinoopolis, hires the flute-player Aurelius Onnophris and three other musicians to play for six days (plus one unpaid day) at a festival in the village of Tebtynis, starting on Phaophi 28 of year 3. He promises 18 drachmas per day, 6 drachmas for treats, 2 drachmas travel money, and the safe return of their instruments.

In English machine translation

To Aurelius Onnophris, flute-player by profession, from Aurelius Philosarapis son of Lysimachos, of Antinoopolis. As there is a festival in the village of Tebtynis and we are holding a feast from the 28th of the present month Phaophi of the current year 3, and moreover as I am … (?) together with others, I wish you to take along with you three other fully qualified (players) to perform for six days, you receiving from me as wages for each day 18 drachmas, and you performing without wages one further day only; but I will also give you 6 drachmas for festival treats, and I will give you 2 drachmas for the journey up and down; and whatever you bring down with you in the way of instruments of the same craft, all these we will return to you safe. Aurelius […] … […]

The word after "moreover" is damaged and its meaning uncertain; the records list Antinoopolis as a doubtful alternative place, probably because the employer is an Antinoite. The Greek aulos, here rendered flute, was a reed instrument closer to an oboe.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Contract with Flageolet - Players). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.

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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · Antinoopolis (?) Tebtynis (Arsinoites)

Αὐρηλίῳ Ὀννῶφρι αὐλητῇ τὴν ἐργασίαν παρὰ Αὐρηλίου Φιλοσαράπιδος Λυσιμάχου Ἀντινοέως. ἑορτῆς οὔσης ἐν κώμῃ Τεβτύνει καὶ εὐωχουμένων ἡμῶν ἀπὸ τῆς κη τοῦ ὄντος μηνὸς Φαῶφι τοῦ ἐνεστῶτος γ ἔτους ἔτι τε καὶ κλιν…ξοντός μου ἅμα ἑτέροις, βούλομαί σε παραλαβεῖν σὺν ἑτέροις τρισὶ τελείοις…