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An account submitted by Timanthes of wages paid out of a 20-drachma allowance to day labourers who gathered and burned brushwood and cut scrub on land from Thoth 25 to Phaophi 9, and then irrigated it from Phaophi 10 to 15. Each worker received 3/4 obol a day. It belongs to the Zenon archive, probably from Philadelphia in the Fayum, about 256-248 BC.
Some daily sums in the edition do not match 3/4 obol per worker exactly. The middle lines about the remaining 25 arouras are badly damaged, so their translation is uncertain.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Account from Timanthes). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
Timanthes gives an account of the money spent in wages to workmen who have been engaged to collect the dry sticks from the fields, burn out the old stumps and cut down the brushwood. These operations lasted from the 25th of Thoth to the 9th of Phaophi, after which the workmen we…
λόγος παρὰ Τιμάνθου ἀπὸ τῶν κ δραχμῶν τοῦ ἀνηλώματος Θῶυτ κε εἰς συναγωγὴν φρυγάνων καὶ ἐνπυρισμὸν σώματα η ἀνὰ ἡμιωβέλιον ὀβολοῦ τέταρτον γίνεται δραχμὴ α κϛ σώματα δ τριώβολον κζ σώματα δ τριώβολον κη σώματα ζ ὀβολοὶ ε δ κθ σώματα η δραχμὴ α λ σώματα δ τριώβολον Φαῶφι α εἰς τὴν…
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