Memorandum of an apprenticeship contract in the building trade TM 12156Tebtynis, Polemonos meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt13 A.D.

Fragmentary memorandum of an apprenticeship contract from the Arsinoite nome in which a son is placed for six years to learn the building trade. The master is to cover the poll tax for year 3 of Tiberius, clothing and the laic contribution, and at the end of the term to give a tunic worth 8 drachmas and an adze worth 4 drachmas.

In English machine translation

This memorandum was added by a record-office scribe in the blank space of an earlier weaving apprenticeship document dated AD 13, which explains the differing dates in the records. The 'laic contribution' (laike syntaxis) was a tax-related payment with no exact English equivalent.

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.