A daily account of wages paid to shipwrights and sawyers repairing a boat, from the Arsinoite nome. Shipwrights earn 7 drachmas a day and sawyers 8, cutting persea wood and acacia ribs; the entries run from the month before Hathyr through Hathyr into Choiak.
In English machine translation
[recto, column 1]
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17th: to 6 shipwrights working on the aforementioned boat, at 7 drachmas each, 42 drachmas; to 2 sawyers cutting persea wood, at 8 drachmas each, 16 drachmas.
18th: to 5 shipwrights working on the aforementioned boat, at 7 drachmas each, 35 drachmas; to 2 sawyers cutting persea wood, at 8 drachmas each, 16 drachmas.
19th: to 4 shipwrights working on the aforementioned boat, at 7 drachmas each, 28 drachmas; to 2 sawyers cutting persea wood, at 8 drachmas each, 16 drachmas.
21st: to 5 shipwrights working on the aforementioned boat, at 7 drachmas each, 35 drachmas.
22nd: to 4 shipwrights working on the aforementioned boat, at 7 drachmas each, 28 drachmas.
23rd: to 6 shipwrights working on the aforementioned boat, at 7 drachmas each, 42 drachmas.
24th: to 4 shipwrights working on the aforementioned boat, at 7 drachmas each, 28 drachmas.
27th: to 7 shipwrights working on the aforementioned boat, at 7 drachmas each, 49 drachmas.
Hathyr 1: to 4 shipwrights working on the aforementioned boat, at 7 drachmas each, 28 drachmas; to 2 sawyers cutting persea wood, at 8 drachmas each, 16 drachmas.
2nd: to 5 shipwrights working on the aforementioned boat, at 7 drachmas each, 35 drachmas; to 2 sawyers cutting acacia-wood ribs, at 8 drachmas each, 16 drachmas.
3rd: to 4 shipwrights working on the aforementioned boat, at 7 drachmas each, 28 drachmas; to 2 sawyers cutting acacia-wood ribs, at 8 drachmas each, 16 drachmas.
4th: to 4 shipwrights working on the aforementioned boat, at 7 drachmas each, 28 drachmas; to 2 sawyers cutting acacia-wood ribs, at 8 drachmas each, 16 drachmas.
5th: to 3 shipwrights working on the aforementioned boat, at 7 drachmas each, 21 drachmas.
7th: to 4 shipwrights removing the nails from the broad planks of the other side of the aforementioned boat, at 7 drachmas each, 28 drachmas; to 2 sawyers cutting acacia-wood ribs, at 8 drachmas each, 16 drachmas.
8th: to 4 shipwrights removing the nails from the broad planks of the other side of the aforementioned boat, at 7 drachmas each, 28 drachmas.
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[verso]
The second column preserves only day numbers. The verb exēlousi probably refers to drawing out the nails to remove planks from one side of the hull.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Frammento di conti). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.