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Fragment of an account of wages for agricultural work, listing monthly payments for groups of six at 7 drachmas each for Phaophi and Hathyr and payments calculated per aroura of land. It belongs to the Zenon archive from Philadelphia in the Arsinoite nome, about 253-252 BC.
An aroura is an Egyptian land measure of about 0.68 acre. The figure 320 drachmas is partly restored but follows from 40 arouras at 8 drachmas.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Abrechnung über Löhne für landwirtschaftliche Arbeiten). 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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