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Account of wages for irrigation and manuring work TM 12407Tebtynis (Arsinoites)

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A daily account of wages paid to farm labourers at Tebtynis, recording irrigation, digging out couch-grass, and the carrying of manure with donkeys to fields about to be sown. Workers, boys and donkey drivers supplied by Paulinus and Geminus are paid in obols and drachmas, with daily totals.

In English machine translation

[recto, column 1a] [… 18 lines lost …] […] 1 worker irrigating, 6 obols [… 5 lines lost …] […] in the kleros [… 2 lines lost …] […] … weeds (?) … [recto, column 1] […] 5 obols […] digging […] couch-grass […] 1 [worker], 5 obols half a worker irrigating together with others on the hundred-aroura plots, 2 1/2 obols 14th: likewise […] irrigating in the same (place) for 2 days, and digging couch-grass, 1 worker, 5 obols 15th: irrigating likewise, 1 worker, 5 obols 25th: carrying manure to the plot (for the fields) that are about to be sown … … 4 … 8 drachmas of Paulinus […] 12 filling into sacks, 1 worker, 6 obols in front of the donkeys in the kleros, 1 boy, 4 obols digging manure during the night in front of the donkeys in the courtyard of our own house, 2 workers, 11 obols following the donkeys, 2 workers, 2 drachmas and through Geminus carrying manure with his own 4 donkeys … following, 1, 1 drachma […] worker […] […] into […] Total for the day […] 17 loads, 205 sacks Total of the exchange charge through Pakebkis: 10 drachmas 55 1/2 obols Of Paulinus: 4 donkeys Of Geminus: 2 drachmas … obols 4 donkeys [recto, column 2] […] […] […] … the donkeys, 4 boys … 1 worker, 6 obols filling into sacks, 1 worker, 6 obols following the donkeys, 1 worker, 7 obols in front of the donkeys in the kleros, 1 boy, 4 obols to one digging manure in front of the donkeys during the night, 1 worker, 5 obols … 1 worker, … obols […] […] and through Harmiysis […] of Geminus to one digging manure, [1] worker […] […] 1 worker […] to those carrying manure with their own 4 donkeys […] filling into sacks, [1 worker] […] son of Pakebkis […] following […] Total for the day […] sacks […] 27th … […] on the hundred-aroura plots […] 28th […] Total of the exchange charge […] Of Paulinus […] Of Geminus […]

Kleros is an allotment of land originally granted to a settler; kollybos is a surcharge for currency exchange. The 'hundred-aroura' plots are rendered from an abbreviation.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Conto di paghe di lavoratori). 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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p.mil.vogl.4.214r

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · Tebtynis (Arsinoites)

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