Receipt for Wages
Acknowledgment of the receipt by Marepsemis, son of Psyphis, from Onnophris, son of Psyphis, of wages for the cultivation of three arourai of sacred land
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Receipt for wages for cultivating three arouras of sacred land TM 12146Tebtynis, Polemonos meris, Arsinoite nome, province of EgyptSeptember[?] 16, 24 A.D.
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A receipt drawn up at Tebtynis in the Fayum in which Marepsemis son of Psoiphis acknowledges that Onnophris son of Psoiphis has paid him in full for his work cultivating 3 arouras of sacred land near the village. He renounces any further claim regarding the work.
In English machine translation
Year [13 of Tiberius Caesar Augustus], month of Sebastos, 19th, [at Tebtynis] in the division of Polemon of the Arsinoite nome. Marepsemis son of Psoiphis, aged about 60, with a scar on the forehead on the right, acknowledges to Onnophris son of Psoiphis, aged about 25, with a scar on the right sole, that he has received from him in full the price and the wages for the work he has done on the plots at Tenain (?) of 3 arouras of sacred land, or however many there may be, near the same village, beyond the Chomeniake canal on the east and the embankment of Tesenepnoutis, in the present 13th year of Tiberius Caesar Augustus, and he makes no claim against him concerning any matter whatsoever regarding the works stated. The contract is valid.
Sebastos is the honorific name for the month Thoth; one record gives the year as AD 24, but the restored regnal year 13 of Tiberius corresponds to AD 26. Tenain may be a place name for the plots.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Receipt for Wages). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
p.mich.5.337
ἔτους τρεισκαιδεκάτου Τιβερίου Καίσαρος Σεβαστοῦ μηνὸς Σεβαστοῦ ἐννεακαιδεκάτῃ ἐν Τεβτύνει τῆς Πολέμωνος μερίδος τοῦ Ἀρσινοείτου νομοῦ. ὁμολογεῖ Μαρεψῆμις Ψοίφιος, ὡς ἐτῶν ἑξήκοντα οὐλὴ μετώπωι ἐκ δεξιῶν, Ὀννώφρει Ψοίφιος, ὡς ἐτῶν εἴκοσι πέντε οὐλὴ ταρσῶι δεξιῶι, ἀπεσχηκέναι παρʼ…