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Engagement of dancers for a village festival at Bakchias TM 11366Bakchias (Arsinoites)6. Aug. 237

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A contract in which Aurelius Asklas, head of a village association at Bakchias, hires from the impresario Aurelius Theon a dancer and one companion to perform for ten days at a festival, paying daily wages plus wheat, bread and donkeys for transport, with an advance already given. It dates to 237 AD in the reign of Maximinus Thrax.

In English machine translation

To Aurelius Theon, manager of female pipe-players (?), from Aurelius Asklas son of Philadelphos, president of the association of the village of Bakchias. I wish to engage from you T[…]sais, dancer, with one other, to perform for us in the aforesaid village for 10 days from the 13th of the month Phaophi according to the old calendar, they receiving as pay 36 drachmas per day, and for the value (?) of all the days 3 artabas of wheat and 15 pairs of loaves, and for going down and coming back 3 donkeys. From this they have received as earnest money, to be reckoned against the price owed to you, […]2 drachmas. Year 3 of Imperator Caesar Gaius Julius Verus Maximinus Pius Felix Augustus Germanicus Maximus Dacicus Maximus Sarmaticus Maximus and Gaius Julius Verus Maximus Germanicus Maximus Dacicus Maximus Sarmaticus Maximus, the most sacred Caesar Augustus, son of the Augustus, Epeiph […].

The title of Theon is abbreviated and its expansion as manager of female pipe-players is uncertain. 'According to the old calendar' refers to the Egyptian calendar without leap years.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below. 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 · 6. Aug. 237 · Bakchias (Arsinoites)

Αὐρηλίῳ Θέωνι προνοητῇ αὐλητρίδων παρὰ Αὐρηλίου Ἀσκλᾶ Φιλαδέλφου ἡγουμένου συνόδου κώμης Βακχιάδος. βούλομαι ἐκλαβεῖν παρά σου Τ[…]σᾶιν ὀρχήστριαν σὺν ἑτέρᾳ μίᾳ λειτουργήσειν ἡμῖν ἐν τῇ προκειμένῃ κώμῃ ἐπὶ ἡμέρας ι ἀπὸ τῆς ιγ Φαῶφι μηνὸς κατὰ ἀρχαίους, λαμβανόντων αὐτῶν ὑπὲρ μισθ…