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Subscription to an apprenticeship contract in which the weaver Orsenouphis, also called Psosneus, agrees to teach Helene, a slave girl belonging to Herakleon son of Eirenaios, the weaving trade for two and a half years, beginning in Pharmouthi of year 42 of Augustus. He promises her a tunic worth 8 drachmas and to continue teaching at his own cost if she fails to learn; Herakleon confirms he has placed her with him.
The phrase 'you shall teach her' in the penalty clause is a scribal slip for 'I shall teach her'. The 'forty-second year of Caesar' is a regnal year of Augustus; the blank space above the subscription was later reused for memoranda of the record office.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Apprenticeship to a Weaver and Memoranda for Other Contracts). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
Subscription to an agreement by Orsenouphis to teach the slave girl Helene, who belongs to Herakleon, the art of weaving during an apprenticeship of two and one-half years; the space left blank above the subscription was later used for memoranda by a scribe of the grapheion (P.Mi…
Ὀρσενοῦφις ὁ καὶ Ψοσνεῦς Καλάλου γέρδιος ὁμολογῶ ἐπάναγκον ἐκδιδάξειν Ἑλένην παιδίσκην Ἡρακλήωνος Εἰρηναίου τὴν γερδιακὴν τέχνην καθʼ ἃ καὶ αὐτὸς ἐπίσταμαι ἐπʼ ἔτη δύο καὶ μῆνας ἓξ ἀπὸ μηνὸς Φαρμοῦθι τοῦ ἐνεστῶτος δευτέρου καὶ τεσσαρακοστοῦ ἔτους Καίσαρος, τρεφομένης καὶ ἱματιζομ…
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